AfroLatinas and LatiNegras

Culture, Identity, and Struggle from an Intersectional Perspective

Rosita Scerbo, Concetta Bondi (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

286 Seiten

2025
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-1035-3 (ISBN)

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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.

AfroLatinas as a subject of scholarship are woefully underrepresented, and this edited volume, AfroLatinas and LatiNegras: Culture, Identity, and Struggle from an Intersectional Perspective, offers an important and timely intervention. The consistent attention to AfroLatinas’ agency across all the chapters is empowering and attentive to the difficult circumstances of asserting that agency, and to the tremendous breadth of what agency can look like. The authors argue for the analytical power of the concept of Intersectionality while considering the hegemonic pressures on AfroLatinidad and the essentializing moves that an intersectional approach enables: evading, overthrowing, and resisting systems of power. Through the study of multiple cultural expressions of Blackness, such as photography, colonial inquisition records, dance, music, fiction, non-fiction, poetic memoir, and religious expression, and throughout different region of the Americas, the chapter contributors of this book consider the relationship that social and historical processes, such as sovereignty and colonialism, have on narrative and cultural production. Rosita Scerbo, Concetta Bondi, and the contributors acknowledge that racial and gender equity cannot exist without Intersectionality, and the inclusion of activist voices broadens this volume's reach and links theory to praxis.

Rosita Scerbo is assistant professor of Afro-Hispanic studies at Georgia State University. Concetta Bondi is lecturer of Spanish at Arizona State University.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Centering Black Women/Challenging Latinidad and Hegemonic Discourses
Rosita Scerbo and Concetta Bondi

Part I: Diasporic Rhythms and Visual Arts: Inteersecting Race and Gender in Afro-Descendent Photography, Music, and Dance

1. Opening up Black, 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 Xênia França
Lesley Feracho

2. The Black Woman as Leader in the Bunde and Bullerengue
Algris Xiomara Aldeano Vásquez

3. No me llames trigueña. Claiming Puerto Rican Blackness in Adriana Parrilla’s photography
Meaghan Jeanne Coogan

4. The Resistance in the Photographic Indexical Portrayal of Afro-Latina Women in Manuel González de la Parra’s Luces de raíz negra
Kerry Green

Part II: Challenging Hegemonic Spaces: Female Leadership and Visibility in Social Activism, Educational Resources, and Spiritual Expressions of Blackness

5. Representing Candomblé in the Public Sphere: Bl

Erscheinungsdatum	23.11.2024
Reihe/Serie	Critical Africana Studies
Co-Autor	Algris Xiomara Aldeano Vásquez, Jamie Lee Andreson, Concetta Bondi
Zusatzinfo	3 tables;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 236 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-6669-1035-X / 166691035X
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-1035-3 / 9781666910353
Zustand	Neuware