This volume collects intellectual work by and about Black women while shedding light on the socio-political conditions that shape their participation and leadership in political struggles for citizenship rights and resources. Additionally, this volume explores the role of the social sciences in documenting anti-Black violence and forging hemispheric struggles against that violence.
This volume collects intellectual work by and about Black women while shedding light on the socio-political conditions that shape their participation and leadership in political struggles for citizenship rights and resources. Additionally, this volume explores the role of the social sciences in documenting anti-Black violence and forging hemispheric struggles against that 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.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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