Description
Building on the growing field of Afropean Studies, this interdisciplinary and intermedial collection of essays proposes a dialogue on Afro-Spanishness that is not exclusively tied to immigration and that understands Blackness as a non-essentialist, heterogeneous and diasporic concept. Studying a variety of twentieth- and twenty-first-century cultural products, some essays explore the resilience of the colonialist paradigms and the circulation of racial ideologies and colonial memories that promote national narratives of whitening. Others focus on Black self-representation and examine how Afro-Spanish authors, artists, and activists destabilize colonial gazes and constructions of national identity, propose decolonial views of Spain and Europe’s literature and history, articulate Afro-Diasporic knowledges, and envision Afro-descendance as an empowering tool.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Black Spain in Afro-Europe
Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego and Ana León-Távora
Chapter 1: From Negrophilia to Necropolitics: Anti-Black Racism in Spanish Avant-Garde Humor Magazines
Ana León-Távora
Chapter 2: The Transnational Afropessimism of Francisco Zamora Loboch
Baltasar Fra-Molinero
Chapter 3: The Value of Color: Spain’s Equality Stamps Fiasco
Jeffrey Coleman
Chapter 4: Using the Web to Educate Spain About Its Afro-Identity: Afroféminas
Esther M. Alarcón Arana
Chapter 5: Hidden Knowledges and Diasporic Positionings: The Autobiographical and Testimonial Texts in Metamba Miago: Relatos y saberes de mujeres afroespañolas
Julia Borst
Chapter 6: Un-Whitening Late Francoist Spain: Knots of Memory in Lucía Mombío’s Las que se atrevieron
Martin Repinecz
Chapter 7: Decolonizing the History of Afro-Spaniards: Afrofeminismo. 50 años de lucha y activismo de mujeres negras en España (1968-2018) by Abuy Nfubea
Dosinda García-Alvite
Chapter 8: Mapping Black Women Through Art and Social Media: the Case of Montserrat Anguiano
Stefania Licata
Chapter 9: From Below and from Within: Urban Peripheries in Lucía Mbomío’s Barrionalismos
Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego
Chapter 10: An Inconclusive Conclusion: Autoethnography as a Model for Epistemic Decolonization
Ana León-Távora
