Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

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.

• ForewordReconfiguring the Politics of Knowledge: WritingTransnational Black Feminism from the SouthCHRISTEN A. SMITH Introduction 1KEISHA-KHAN Y. PERRY AND MELANIE A. MEDEIROS 1 Reclaiming a Legacy: Black Women’s Presence andPerspectives in the Brazilian Social SciencesEDILZA CORREIA SOTERO 2 Beyond Intercultural Mestizaje: Toward Black Women’sStudies on the Caribbean Coast of NicaraguaMELANIE WHITE 3 The Significance of “Communists Wearing Panties”in the Jamaican Left Movement (1974–1980)MAZIKI THAME 4 Exercising Diversity: From Identity to Alliancesin Brazil’s Contemporary Black FeminismJULIA S. ABDALL A 5 “This Isn’t to Get Rich”: Double Morality andBlack Women Private Tutors in CubaANGELA CRUMDY 6 A “Bundle of Silences”: Untold Stories of Black WomenSurvivors of the War in ColombiaCASTRIELA E. HERNÁNDEZ-REYES 7 The Burden of Las Bravas: Race and Violenceagainst Afro-Peruvian WomenESHE L. LEWIS 8 A Creole Christmas: Sexual Panic and ReproductiveJustice in Bluefields, NicaraguaISHAN GORDON-UGARTE 9 Digital Black Feminist Activism in Brazil: Toward aRepoliticization of Aesthetics and Romantic RelationshipsBRUNA CRISTINA JAQUETTO PEREIRA AND CRISTIANO RODRIGUES Notes on ContributorsIndex

"This exciting new volume foregrounds Latin American and Caribbean women’s core contributions to a hemispheric Black radical tradition. The collection lovingly captures the brilliance and power of women’s African diasporic politics and thought in the face of unrelenting violence against them. Essential reading for all people who care about liberation."  - Jennifer Goett (author of Black Autonomy: Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism) "Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean is a key intervention against the citational erasure of Afro-Latin American women intellectuals that simultaneously highlights their intellectual contributions and political activism. At a historical moment when Black women are taking on prominent roles as elected national leaders in countries such as Costa Rica and Colombia, this edited volume brings together excellent, rigorously researched essays on the transnational feminist activism of black women in multiple Latin American countries, including Brazil, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Cuba, Colombia, and Peru. In so doing it broadens the geographic and conceptual boundaries of Black Studies, Latin American Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies." - Juliet Hooker (author of Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos)