Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Critical Research and Perspectives

Melanie A. Medeiros, Keisha-Khan Y. Perry (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

214 Seiten

2023
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-3631-0 (ISBN)

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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.

MELANIE A. MEDEIROS is an associate professor of anthropology at SUNY Geneseo. She is the author of Marriage, Divorce and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women’s Perspectives on Love, Respect and Kinship (Rutgers University Press). She is also the co-editor of Ethnographic Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean. KEISHA-KHAN Y. PERRY is an associate professor of Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil, winner of the 2014 Gloria Anzaldua Book Prize from the National Women's Studies Association and a Choice Review Outstanding Title for 2014.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	12.08.2023
Co-Autor	Julia S. Abdalla, Angela Crumdy
Vorwort	Christen A. Smith
Zusatzinfo	5 B-W images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-9788-3631-7 / 1978836317
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-3631-0 / 9781978836310
Zustand	Neuware