Full Description
Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Critical Research and Perspectives employs an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach to examine Black cisgender women's social, cultural, economic, and political experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean. It presents critical empirical research emphasizing Black women's innovative, theoretical, and methodological approaches to activism and class-based gendered racism and Black politics. While there are a few single-authored books focused on Black women in Latin American and Caribbean, the vast majority of the scholarship on Black women in Latin America and the Caribbean has been published as theses, dissertations, articles, and book chapters. This volume situates these social and political analyses as interrelated and dialogic and contributes a transnational perspective to contemporary conversations surrounding the continued relevance of Black women as a category of social science inquiry. Many of the contributing authors are from Latin American and Caribbean countries, reflecting a commitment to representing the valuable observations and lived experiences of scholars from this region. When read together, the chapters offer a hemispheric framework for understanding the lasting legacies of colonialism, transatlantic slavery, plantation life, and persistent socio-economic and cultural violence.
Contents
Foreword
Reconfiguring the Politics of Knowledge: Writing
Transnational Black Feminism from the South
CHRISTEN A. SMITH
Introduction 1
KEISHA-KHAN Y. PERRY AND MELANIE A. MEDEIROS
1 Reclaiming a Legacy: Black Women's Presence and
Perspectives in the Brazilian Social Sciences
EDILZA CORREIA SOTERO
2 Beyond Intercultural Mestizaje: Toward Black Women's
Studies on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua
MELANIE WHITE
3 The Significance of "Communists Wearing Panties"
in the Jamaican Left Movement (1974-1980)
MAZIKI THAME
4 Exercising Diversity: From Identity to Alliances
in Brazil's Contemporary Black Feminism
JULIA S. ABDALL A
5 "This Isn't to Get Rich": Double Morality and
Black Women Private Tutors in Cuba
ANGELA CRUMDY
6 A "Bundle of Silences": Untold Stories of Black Women
Survivors of the War in Colombia
CASTRIELA E. HERNÁNDEZ-REYES
7 The Burden of Las Bravas: Race and Violence
against Afro-Peruvian Women
ESHE L. LEWIS
8 A Creole Christmas: Sexual Panic and Reproductive
Justice in Bluefields, Nicaragua
ISHAN GORDON-UGARTE
9 Digital Black Feminist Activism in Brazil: Toward a
Repoliticization of Aesthetics and Romantic Relationships
BRUNA CRISTINA JAQUETTO PEREIRA AND CRISTIANO RODRIGUES
Notes on Contributors
Index
