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Book Synopsis Afrolatinas and Latinegras by : Rosita Scerbo
Download or read book Afrolatinas and Latinegras written by Rosita Scerbo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows the challenges inherent to the AfroLatina experience with a focus on Black women. The authors argue the analytical power of Intersectionality while considering the hegemonic pressures on AfroLatinidad and the essentializing moves that an intersectional approach enables resisting systems of power.
Book Synopsis The Afro-Latin@ Reader by : Miriam Jiménez Román
Download or read book The Afro-Latin@ Reader written by Miriam Jiménez Román and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Afro-Latin@ Reader focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean. The presence of Afro-Latin@s in the United States (and throughout the Americas) belies the notion that Blacks and Latin@s are two distinct categories or cultures. Afro-Latin@s are uniquely situated to bridge the widening social divide between Latin@s and African Americans; at the same time, their experiences reveal pervasive racism among Latin@s and ethnocentrism among African Americans. Offering insight into Afro-Latin@ life and new ways to understand culture, ethnicity, nation, identity, and antiracist politics, The Afro-Latin@ Reader presents a kaleidoscopic view of Black Latin@s in the United States. It addresses history, music, gender, class, and media representations in more than sixty selections, including scholarly essays, memoirs, newspaper and magazine articles, poetry, short stories, and interviews. While the selections cover centuries of Afro-Latin@ history, since the arrival of Spanish-speaking Africans in North America in the mid-sixteenth-century, most of them focus on the past fifty years. The central question of how Afro-Latin@s relate to and experience U.S. and Latin American racial ideologies is engaged throughout, in first-person accounts of growing up Afro-Latin@, a classic essay by a leader of the Young Lords, and analyses of U.S. census data on race and ethnicity, as well as in pieces on gender and sexuality, major-league baseball, and religion. The contributions that Afro-Latin@s have made to U.S. culture are highlighted in essays on the illustrious Afro-Puerto Rican bibliophile Arturo Alfonso Schomburg and music and dance genres from salsa to mambo, and from boogaloo to hip hop. Taken together, these and many more selections help to bring Afro-Latin@s in the United States into critical view. Contributors: Afro–Puerto Rican Testimonies Project, Josefina Baéz, Ejima Baker, Luis Barrios, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Adrian Burgos Jr., Ginetta E. B. Candelario, Adrián Castro, Jesús Colón, Marta I. Cruz-Janzen, William A. Darity Jr., Milca Esdaille, Sandra María Esteves, María Teresa Fernández (Mariposa), Carlos Flores, Juan Flores, Jack D. Forbes, David F. Garcia, Ruth Glasser, Virginia Meecham Gould, Susan D. Greenbaum, Evelio Grillo, Pablo “Yoruba” Guzmán, Gabriel Haslip-Viera, Tanya K. Hernández, Victor Hernández Cruz, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Lisa Hoppenjans, Vielka Cecilia Hoy, Alan J. Hughes, María Rosario Jackson, James Jennings, Miriam Jiménez Román, Angela Jorge, David Lamb, Aida Lambert, Ana M. Lara, Evelyne Laurent-Perrault, Tato Laviera, John Logan, Antonio López, Felipe Luciano, Louis Pancho McFarland, Ryan Mann-Hamilton, Wayne Marshall, Marianela Medrano, Nancy Raquel Mirabal, Yvette Modestin, Ed Morales, Jairo Moreno, Marta Moreno Vega, Willie Perdomo, Graciela Pérez Gutiérrez, Sofia Quintero, Ted Richardson, Louis Reyes Rivera, Pedro R. Rivera , Raquel Z. Rivera, Yeidy Rivero, Mark Q. Sawyer, Piri Thomas, Silvio Torres-Saillant, Nilaja Sun, Sherezada “Chiqui” Vicioso, Peter H. Wood
Book Synopsis American Educator, Activist, and Advocate by : Kay Ann Taylor
Download or read book American Educator, Activist, and Advocate written by Kay Ann Taylor and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American Educator, Activist, and Advocate provides in-depth research into Eleanor Archer's life as one of the first Black public school teachers in Des Moines and presents a gateway for academics to acknowledge the lives and ideas of women during the Jim Crow era, clarifying Black women's standpoint on the segregated South"--
Book Synopsis Transatlantic Liverpool by : Mark Christian
Download or read book Transatlantic Liverpool written by Mark Christian and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written within the perspective of Africana critical studies, this book presents a transatlantic voyage and the depths of historical Black experience in Liverpool, England. The author addresses the narrative of the Black Atlantic propounded by Paul Gilroy and further reveals a firsthand account of a largely hidden aspect of Black British history.
Book Synopsis Mexico, Slavery, Freedom by : Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva
Download or read book Mexico, Slavery, Freedom written by Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-20 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Through its rich and fascinating collection of documents, Mexico, Slavery, Freedom offers a much-needed window into Mexico’s long history of slavery that will leave readers wanting to learn and discover more. Sierra Silva brilliantly guides his readers through the maze of Mexican archival resources. . . . Through his careful content curation, readers will discover how corruption and discrimination led to persistent enslavement of indigenous Mesoamerican and transpacific peoples despite royal orders to abolish the practice. . . . The rich, detailed-packed introductions--to the book in general and to each chapter--are nonetheless succinct and to the point. Sierra Silva’s . . . editorial approach proves that information and interpretative points are better served in small portions. The documents themselves are the main course. Sierra Silva also recognizes the importance of giving readers both English and Spanish versions of each document in the book. These bilingual transcriptions make Mexico, Slavery, Freedom an equally valuable resource for course instruction in predominantly English-speaking environments, bilingual classrooms, and Spanish-centered courses.” —Mariana Dantas, Ohio University This is the first volume to provide, in dual-language format, selections from primary texts related to the experiences of enslaved Africans, Asians, and their descendants in colonial Mexico.
Book Synopsis Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora by : Marta Moreno Vega
Download or read book Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora written by Marta Moreno Vega and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hers is one of eleven essays and four poems included in this volume in which Latina women of African descent share their stories. The authors included are from all over Latin America-Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Panama, Puerto Rico, Venezuela-and the United States. They write about the African diaspora and issues such as colonialism, oppression and disenfranchisement. Diva Moreira, a Brazilian, writes that she experienced racism and humiliation at a very young age. The worst experience, she remembers, was her mother's bosses' conviction that Diva didn't need to go to school after the fourth grade, "because blacks don't need to study more than that."
Book Synopsis Afro-Latinos in the U.S. Economy by : Michelle Holder
Download or read book Afro-Latinos in the U.S. Economy written by Michelle Holder and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afro-Latinos in the U.S. Economy outlines the current status of Afro-Latinos in the U.S. economy. The goal of this book is to provide a foundation in the economic dimensions of American Afro-Latinos which can be used to supplement research about this group in other social science disciplines.
Book Synopsis The Changing Face of Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity by : Mamadou Badiane
Download or read book The Changing Face of Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity written by Mamadou Badiane and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Changing Face of Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity: Negrismo and N gritude looks primarily at Negrismo and N gritude, two literary movements that appeared in the Francophone and Hispanic Caribbean as well as in Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century. It draws on speeches and manifestos, and use cultural studies to contextualize ideas. It poses the bases of both movements in the Caribbean and in Africa, and lays out the literary antecedents that influenced or shaped both movements. This book examines the search for cultural identity through the poetry of Nicolas Guill n, Manuel del Cabral, and Pal s Matos. This search is extended to the N gritude movement through the poems of L opold Senghor, L on-Gontran Damas, and Aim C saire. Mamadou Badiane further discusses the under-represented N gritude women writers who were silenced by their male counterparts during the first half of the twentieth century. Ultimately, this is a book on Caribbean cultural identity that shows it in a slippery and fluctuating zone. By demonstrating that while the founders of the N gritude movement both identified themselves as descendants of Africans and were proud to proclaim their African heritage, the members of the Antillanit and Cr olit movements see themselves as a product of miscegenation between different cultures.
Book Synopsis Dialogues Across Diasporas by : Marion Christina Rohrleitner
Download or read book Dialogues Across Diasporas written by Marion Christina Rohrleitner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialogues Across Diasporas focuses on the shared historical legacies of members of the Africana and Latina diasporas, and the cultural impact of the African diaspora in the Americas. This book seeks to emphasize connections rather than divisions among different migratory ethnic communities via a reconfiguration of borders and ethnic identities. This collection of essays has three major goals: first, to foreground shared themes and strategies in the literary productions of women of Africana and Latina/o descent; second, to highlight the importance of the arts for community activism within shared diasporic spaces; and third, to illustrate the potential of artistic and activist collaborations among women from both groups across disciplinary, political, national, and ethnic divides. Dialogues across Diasporas is divided into three sections. The first section provides a theoretical overview of diasporic migrations, politics, and identities. It argues that diverse diasporas can unite around shared political and cultural experiences such as converting contested spaces into communities and resisting rhetorics of exclusion. The second section demonstrates the diverse ways in which migratory women and daughters of the diaspora frame their histories, lived experiences, and different forms of knowledge via poetry, short stories, academic essays, and other art forms. The third section focuses on women's activism, suggesting opportunities for collaboration among and between diverse diasporic communities.
Book Synopsis Afro-Latin American Studies by : Alejandro de la Fuente
Download or read book Afro-Latin American Studies written by Alejandro de la Fuente and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the full range of humanities and social science scholarship on people of African descent in Latin America.
Book Synopsis Neither Enemies nor Friends by : S. Oboler
Download or read book Neither Enemies nor Friends written by S. Oboler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection, leading scholars focus on the contemporary meanings and diverse experiences of blackness in specific countries of the hemisphere, including the United States. The anthology introduces new perspectives on comparative forms of racialization in the Americas and presents its implications both for Latin American societies, and for Latinos' relations with African Americans in the U.S.
Book Synopsis Latina Psychologists by : Lillian Comas-Diaz
Download or read book Latina Psychologists written by Lillian Comas-Diaz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, twelve eminent Latina Psychologists illustrate how they practice gender- and culture-sensitive psychotherapy, counseling, research, pedagogy, social justice, and mentoring. They share how they create their own path in the midst of oppression – by becoming aware of the connection between their lives and their gendered, cultural, social, and political circumstances – and how they liberate themselves and those who seek their psychological services. Based on lived experiences, they reveal how they integrate a borderlands theory, a testimonio method, and an embodiment analysis into a Latina Feminist Psychology. More importantly, these Latina Psychologists offer easy-to-follow advice to help readers thrive while living in the cultural borderlands.
Book Synopsis The Afro-Latin@ Reader by : Miriam Jiménez Román
Download or read book The Afro-Latin@ Reader written by Miriam Jiménez Román and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Afro-Latin@ Reader focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean. The presence of Afro-Latin@s in the United States (and throughout the Americas) belies the notion that Blacks and Latin@s are two distinct categories or cultures. Afro-Latin@s are uniquely situated to bridge the widening social divide between Latin@s and African Americans; at the same time, their experiences reveal pervasive racism among Latin@s and ethnocentrism among African Americans. Offering insight into Afro-Latin@ life and new ways to understand culture, ethnicity, nation, identity, and antiracist politics, The Afro-Latin@ Reader presents a kaleidoscopic view of Black Latin@s in the United States. It addresses history, music, gender, class, and media representations in more than sixty selections, including scholarly essays, memoirs, newspaper and magazine articles, poetry, short stories, and interviews. While the selections cover centuries of Afro-Latin@ history, since the arrival of Spanish-speaking Africans in North America in the mid-sixteenth-century, most of them focus on the past fifty years. The central question of how Afro-Latin@s relate to and experience U.S. and Latin American racial ideologies is engaged throughout, in first-person accounts of growing up Afro-Latin@, a classic essay by a leader of the Young Lords, and analyses of U.S. census data on race and ethnicity, as well as in pieces on gender and sexuality, major-league baseball, and religion. The contributions that Afro-Latin@s have made to U.S. culture are highlighted in essays on the illustrious Afro-Puerto Rican bibliophile Arturo Alfonso Schomburg and music and dance genres from salsa to mambo, and from boogaloo to hip hop. Taken together, these and many more selections help to bring Afro-Latin@s in the United States into critical view. Contributors: Afro–Puerto Rican Testimonies Project, Josefina Baéz, Ejima Baker, Luis Barrios, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Adrian Burgos Jr., Ginetta E. B. Candelario, Adrián Castro, Jesús Colón, Marta I. Cruz-Janzen, William A. Darity Jr., Milca Esdaille, Sandra María Esteves, María Teresa Fernández (Mariposa), Carlos Flores, Juan Flores, Jack D. Forbes, David F. Garcia, Ruth Glasser, Virginia Meecham Gould, Susan D. Greenbaum, Evelio Grillo, Pablo “Yoruba” Guzmán, Gabriel Haslip-Viera, Tanya K. Hernández, Victor Hernández Cruz, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Lisa Hoppenjans, Vielka Cecilia Hoy, Alan J. Hughes, María Rosario Jackson, James Jennings, Miriam Jiménez Román, Angela Jorge, David Lamb, Aida Lambert, Ana M. Lara, Evelyne Laurent-Perrault, Tato Laviera, John Logan, Antonio López, Felipe Luciano, Louis Pancho McFarland, Ryan Mann-Hamilton, Wayne Marshall, Marianela Medrano, Nancy Raquel Mirabal, Yvette Modestin, Ed Morales, Jairo Moreno, Marta Moreno Vega, Willie Perdomo, Graciela Pérez Gutiérrez, Sofia Quintero, Ted Richardson, Louis Reyes Rivera, Pedro R. Rivera , Raquel Z. Rivera, Yeidy Rivero, Mark Q. Sawyer, Piri Thomas, Silvio Torres-Saillant, Nilaja Sun, Sherezada “Chiqui” Vicioso, Peter H. Wood
Book Synopsis Black Greek 101 by : Walter M. Kimbrough
Download or read book Black Greek 101 written by Walter M. Kimbrough and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When members of Black fraternal organizations and non-members alike finish Black Greek 101, they will have a foundation for understanding some of the most interesting organizations that have influenced not only campus culture, but American culture as a whole."--Jacket.
Book Synopsis Commodified and Criminalized by : David J. Leonard
Download or read book Commodified and Criminalized written by David J. Leonard and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics of new racism and dominant white racial frames. Contributors discuss athletes ranging from Tiger Woods and Serena Williams to Freddy Adu and Shani Davis. Through dynamic case studies, Commodified and Criminalized unpacks the conversation between black athletes and colorblind discourse, while challenging the assumptions of contemporary sports culture. The contributors in this provocative collection push the conversation beyond the playing field and beyond the racial landscape of sports culture to explore the connections between sports representations and a broader history of racialized violence.
Book Synopsis The Afro-Latin@ Reader by : Miriam Jiménez Román
Download or read book The Afro-Latin@ Reader written by Miriam Jiménez Román and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest Africans in North America / Peter H. Wood -- Black pioneers : the Spanish-speaking Afro-Americans of the Southwest / Jack D. Forbes -- Slave and free women of color in the Spanish ports of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola / Virginia Meacham Gould -- Afro-Cubans in Tampa / Susan D. Greenbaum -- Excerpt from Pulling the muse from the drum / Adrián Castro -- Excerpt from Racial integrity : a plea for the establishment of a chair of Negro history in our schools and colleges / Arturo A. Schomburg -- The world of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg / Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof -- Invoking Arturo Schomburg's legacy in Philadelphia / Evelyne Laurent-Perrault -- Black Cuban, Black American / Evelio Grillo -- A Puerto Rican in New York and other sketches / Jesús Colón -- Melba Alvarado, El Club Cubano Inter-Americano, and the creation of Afro-Cubanidades in New York City / Nancy Raquel Mirabal -- An uneven playing field : Afro-Latinos in major league baseball / Adrian Burgos Jr -- Changing identities : an Afro-Latino@ family portrait / Gabriel Haslip-Viera -- ¡Eso era tremendo! : an Afro-Cuban musician remembers / Graciela -- From "indianola" to "ño colá" : the strange career of the Afro-Puerto Rican musician / Ruth Glasser -- Excerpt from cu/bop / Louis Reyes Rivera -- Bauzá-Gillespie-Latin/jazz : difference, modernity, and the black Caribbean / Jairo Moreno -- Contesting that damned mambo : Arsenio Rodríguez and the people of El Barrio and the Bronx in the 1950s / David F. García -- Boogaloo and Latin Soul / Juan Flores -- Excerpt from The salsa of Bethesda Fountain / Tato Laviera -- Hair conking; buy black / Carlos Cooks -- Carlos A. Cooks : Dominican Garveyite in Harlem / Pedro R. Rivera -- Down these mean streets / Piri Thomas -- African things / Victor Hernández Cruz -- Black notes and "you do something to me" / Sandra María Esteves -- Before people called me a spic, they called me a nigger / Pablo "Yoruba" Guzmán -- Excerpt from Jíbaro, my pretty nigger / Felipe Luciano -- The Yoruba Orisha tradition comes to New York City / Marta Moreno Vega -- Reflections and lived experiences of Afro-Latin@ religiosity / Luis Barrios -- Discovering myself : un testimonio / Sherezada "Chiqui" Vicioso -- Excerpt from Dominicanish / Josefina Báez -- The Black Puerto Rican woman in contemporary American society / Angela Jorge -- Something Latino was up with us / Spring Redd -- Excerpt from Poem for my Grifa-rican sistah, or broken ends broken promises -- Mariposa (María Teresa Fernández) -- Latinegras : desired women--undesirable mothers, daughters, sisters, and wives / Marta I. Cruz-Janzen -- Letter to a friend / Nilaja Sun -- Uncovering mirrors : Afro-Latina lesbian subjects / Ana M. Lara -- The black bellybutton of a bongo / Marianela Medrano -- Notes on Eusebia Cosme and Juano Hernández / Miriam Jiménez Román -- Desde el mero medio : race discrimination within the Latin@ community / Carlos Flores -- Displaying identity : Dominicans in the Black mosaic of Washington, D.C. / Ginetta E. B. Candelario -- Bringing the soul : afros, black empowerment, and Lucecita Benítez / Yeidy M. Rivero -- Can BET make you Black? : remixing and reshaping Latin@s on Black Entertainment Television / Ejima Baker -- The Afro-Latino connection : can this group be the bridge to a broadbased Black-Hispanic alliance? / Alan Hughes and Milca Esdaille -- Ghettocentricity, blackness, and pan-latinidad / Raquel Z. Rivera -- Chicano rap roots : Afro-Mexico and black-brown cultural exchange / Pancho McFarland -- The rise and fall of reggaeton : from Daddy Yankee to Tego Calderón and beyond / Wayne Marshall -- Do plátanos go wit' collard greens? / David Lamb -- Divas don't yield / Sofia Quintero -- An Afro-Latina's quest for inclusion / Yvette Modestin -- Retracing migration : from Samaná to New York and back again / Ryan Mann-Hamilton -- Negotiating among invisibilities : tales of Afro-latinidades in the United States / Vielka Cecilia Hoy -- We are black too : experiences of a Honduran garifuna / Aida Lambert -- Profile of an Afro-Latina : Black, Mexican, both / María Rosario Jackson -- Enrique Patterson : Black Cuban intellectual in Cuban Miami / Antonio López -- Reflections about race by a negrito acomplejao / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva -- Divisible blackness : reflections on heterogeneity and racial identity / Silvio Torres-Saillant -- Nigger-Reecan blues / Willie Perdomo -- How race counts for Hispanic Americans / John R. Logan -- Bleach in the rainbow : Latino ethnicity and preference for whiteness / William A. Darity Jr., Jason Dietrich, and Darrick Hamilton -- Brown like me? / Ed Morales -- Against the myth of racial harmony in Puerto Rico / Afro-Puerto Rican Testimonies Project -- Mexican ways, African roots / Lisa Hoppenjans and Ted Richardson -- Afro-Latin@s and the Latin@ workplace / Tanya Katerí Hernández -- Racial politics in multiethnic America : Black and Latina@ identities and coalitions / Mark Sawyer -- Afro-Latinism in United States society : a commentary / James Jennings.
Book Synopsis Daughters of the Stone by : Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Download or read book Daughters of the Stone written by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers It is the mid-1800s. Fela, taken from Africa, is working at her second sugar plantation in colonial Puerto Rico, where her mistress is only too happy to benefit from her impressive embroidery skills. But Fela has a secret. Before she and her husband were separated and sold into slavery, they performed a tribal ceremony in which they poured the essence of their unborn child into a very special stone. Fela keeps the stone with her, waiting for the chance to finish what she started. When the plantation owner approaches her, Fela sees a better opportunity for her child, and allows the man to act out his desire. Such is the beginning of a line of daughters connected by their intense love for one another, and the stories of a lost land. Mati, a powerful healer and noted craftswoman, is grounded in a life that is disappearing in a quickly changing world. Concha, unsure of her place, doesn't realize the price she will pay for rejecting her past. Elena, modern and educated, tries to navigate between two cultures, moving to the United States, where she will struggle to keep her family together. Carisa turns to the past for wisdom and strength when her life in New York falls apart. The stone becomes meaningful to each of the women, pulling them through times of crisis and ultimately connecting them to one another. Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa shows great skill and warmth in the telling of this heartbreaking, inspirational story about mothers and daughters, and the ways in which they hurt and save one another.