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... Retamar’s Caliban. This essay invites the reader to remember Casal’s 1970s essays as foundationally intersectional, decolonial, antiracist, and feminist. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Smith College 2022 Afro-Latina Cuban disidentification Blackness Caliban 21 Especially...

... emergence of Afro-Cuban feminisms. Women's leadership in the Cuban chapter of the Articulaci6n Afrodescendiente en America Latina y el Caribe (ARAAC) arose in counterpoint with primarily male critics of that organization. The publication and enthusiastic reception of the collection Aftocubanasin 2013...

... of an unidentified woman reading it (AMA20n). Fellow Afro-Costa Rican writer, Delia McDonald discusses Black poetry in Costa Rica on her blog CollecionaistdaeEspejows ith several references to "Rotundamente negra" and excerpts of the poem and others from collection of the same name.7 Cimarrones, an Afro-Latina/o...

..., I occupy a unique position as a dark-skinned Latina or Afro-Puerto Rican. While negotiating my cultural and national background as an Afro-Puerto Rican woman in the United States, my Blackness allows me to negotiate a different type of racialization. At times, I am not recognized as a Latina...

...: Thoughts from the Identities of an Afrodescendant and Feminist Woman, Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora," Moreno Vargas, Marta, Alba Marinieves and YvetteModestin, Arte Publico Press, Houston, TX. RMAAD.2011. Informe sabre los derechos humanos de las mujeres afrodescendientes de la region...

... are for "Latinas between the ages of 20-30." That could be any of us sitting here. It was really difficult to go in there with Afro-Latinas, then like north-of-Spain Latinas-red-haired and pink skin-and we all had to fit the same definition. Take away the body image, because that's another issue. And not everyone...

... Black feminism is also taken up by Laura Lomas in her Essay “Afro-Latina Disidentification and Bridging: Lourdes Casal’s Critical Race Theory.” Lomas’s title also references the recent targeting of critical race theory by right-wing ideologues in the United States who have launched a disinformation...

... or subtexts are often marginal, if not invisible, within the broad frame of Latin American literature, culture, and history. Dorothy E. Mosby's Place,Languagea, nd Identityis an important book that addresses the works of Afro-Hispanic, Latina, and other writers. The conceptual framework is broadly situated...

... by and productive of both geopolitics and domestic power structures. Nonetheless, Latino studies also largely shared with Afro-American studies a U.S. mainland analytical focus on civil rights matters. Similarly, Latina feminists joined Black feminists in insisting on intersectional analyses...

..., speaking, and behaving are patently wrong and, moreover, legally punishable. Likewise, among the victories of multiple antiracist/antinativist movements was making denigrating discourse verboten, at least in the public sphere and educational settings. And in fact, my first child, a millennial Latina who...

... Copyright © 2007 by Smith College 2007 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS M. CRISTINA ALCALDEis Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Southwestern University. Her areas ofresearch include Peru and Latinas in the U.S. as well as gender violence, race, and class. BEAUTYBRAGGis an assistant professor who...

... the [Meridians:feminismr,ace,transnationalism2006, vol. 7, no. r, pp. v-vii] ©2006 by Smith College. All rights reserved. V representational roles of the "generic Latina" on the public stage as maids, nannies, and prostitutes. To rectify the trend, Saracho and Paz founded Teatro Luna:the first and only all-Latina theater...

... countries, as well as among Latinas/as in the U.S. 2. For English-language analyses of Afro-Brazilian feminisms, see Caldwell 2001, 2007, 2009, 2010, and forthcoming; Carneiro 1999; Lebon 2007; McCallum 2007; Perry 2008; Reis 2007. 3. Of rgr million Brazilians counted in the 2010 census, gr million self...

... natives of the island that now houses the Dominican Republic and "lo Hispano"or hispanicity, reflects the multiple semiotic systems of race they have historically negotiated. La/aindia/ois invoked to erase the African past and Afro- HAIR RACE-ING 129 diasporic present of Dominicans (Howard 1997...

... . Castillo-Montoya Milagros , and Torres-Guzmán María . 2012 . “ Thriving in Our Identity and in the Academy: Latina Epistemology as a Core Resource .” Harvard Educational Review 82 , no. 4 : 540 – 58 . doi.org/10.17763/haer.82.4.k483005r768821n5 . Chang Aurora . 2018...

...Ochy Curiel; Manuela Borzone; Alexander Ponomareff Abstract This article rethinks the challenges of radical politics within a global neoliberal context by rekindling conversations about the history of Afro-Latin American women's movements. The article explores the current economic crisis and its...

.... 3 All interview excerpts have been translated from Spanish by the author. 4 The term hispano (Hispanic) almost universally was used interchangeably with Latino . It was the more prevalent term, however, and will be used here when paraphrasing or quoting others. Latina/o will be used...

...Lourdes Torres Abstract While in the last decades there has been a proliferation of writings by Latina lesbians who theorize issues of intersectionality, missing still are the voices and analyses of Puerto Rican lesbians who articulate the specificity of Puerto Rican sexual, racial, national...

... - such as the Latin American and Caribbean Network Against ViolenceAgainst Women and the Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean Women's Network. The 1990s witnessed the ascendance of a new form of international activism among growing numbers of feminists in the region -one targeting intergovernmental organizations...

...Rachel Afi Quinn Abstract Afro-Dominican singer-songwriter Xiomara Fortuna has enjoyed a career that spanned more than four decades and shaped the work of a new generation of Dominican musicians. In March 2017 she was bestowed a presidential award of honor and she accepted it barefoot, making...