Research Catalog

Title

AfroLatinas and LatiNegras : culture, identity, and struggle from an intersectional perspective / edited by Rosita Scerbo and Concetta Bondi.

Publication

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2022]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Scerbo, Rosita
• Bondi, Concetta

Series Statement

Critical Africana studies: African, African American, and Caribbean interdisciplinary and intersectional studies

Subject

• Women, Black > Latin America
• Intersectionality (Sociology) > Latin America
• Power (Social sciences) > Latin America
• Intersectionality

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Centering black women/challenging Latinidad and hegemonic discourses / Rosita Scerbo and Concetta Bondi -- Part I: Diasporic rhythms and visual arts -- Opening up black spaces, female spaces: Dialogues with the Orishas, the city, and the mythic space in 'Banho de Folhas' by Luedji Luna and 'Pra que me chamas' by X̊nia Fraṅa / Lesley Feracho -- The black woman as leader in the Bunde and Bullerengue / Algris Xiomara Aldeano V̀squez -- No me llames triguęa, soy negra: Claiming Puerto Rican blackness in Adriana Parilla's photography / Meaghan Jeanne Coogan -- The resistance in the photography indexical portrayal of Afro-Latina women in Manuel Gonz̀lez de la Parra's 'Luces de ra̕z negra' / Kerry Green -- Part II: Challenging hegemonic spaces -- Representing Candombľ in the public sphere: Black priestesses' authorship in Brazilian cultural production / Jamie Lee Andreson -- The invisible women: An analysis of the representation of Afro-Latinx women in Spanish-language textbooks / Lillie Padilla -- Writing and activism: A political perspective on Afro-Latinas' struggle in Colombia, Brazile, and the Caribbean / Yesenia Escobar Espitia, Renata Dorneles Lima, Yoiseth Patricia Cabarcas, and Lindsay Gary -- Part III: Relearning Latin America black past and preset -- Repairing the broken strands of Afro-Latina history in Mayra Santos-Febres's fiction / Karen S. Christian -- Afro-Mexican women in the northern frontier: Subalternity, agency, and power dynamics in the seventeenth century / Brenda Romero -- Blurring genres, blurring borders: Contemporary poetic memoirs of Afro-Dominicanas in the United States / Melissa Castillo Planas -- Papi's bridge: Toward a new diasporic Dominican identity in 'Clap When You Land' / Keturah Nichols.

Call Number

Sc E 23-873

ISBN

• 9781666910339
• 1666910333
• 9781666910346 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022041048

OCLC

1322179085

Title

AfroLatinas and LatiNegras : culture, identity, and struggle from an intersectional perspective / edited by Rosita Scerbo and Concetta Bondi.

Publisher

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2022]

Description

viii, 277 pages ; 24 cm.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical Africana studies: African, African American, and Caribbean interdisciplinary and intersectional studies

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary

"This book shows the challenges inherent to the AfroLatina experience with a focus on Black women. The authors argue the analytical power of Intersectionality while considering the hegemonic pressures on AfroLatinidad and the essentializing moves that an intersectional approach enables resisting systems of power"-- Provided by publisher.

Added Author

Scerbo, Rosita, editor.

Bondi, Concetta, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 23-873