Colonialist Gazes and Counternarratives of Blackness

Ana León-Távora is Associate Professor of Spanish, Director of Modern Languages and Director of Race and Ethnicity Studies at Salem College, North Carolina. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters that examine issues of social and political power relations, racial, ethnic, and linguistic discrimination in Spain, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. She is also the co-editor and co-translator of the bilingual critical book and catalogue on contemporary Cuban art authored by Linda Howe, Cuban Artists’ Books and Prints. Libros y Grabados de Artistas Cubanos: 1998–2008 (2009).Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of Entre mujeres. Política de la amistad y el deseo en la narrativa española contemporánea (2008) and the editor of two collections of essays: Black USA and Spain. Shared Memories in the 20th Century (2021) and Memoria colonial e inmigración. La negritud en la España posfranquista (2008). In addition, she has co-edited the special issue of Romance Notes “The Rosalia Effect. Popular Music and Culture in Contemporary Spain” (with N. M. Murray, 2023) and Un hispanismo para el siglo XXI. Ensayos de crítica cultural (with A. Villamandos, 2011). As part of her research project on women intellectuals in the press during Spain’s Transition to democracy, she published Ana María Moix: Semblanzas e impertinencias (2016), an edition of Moix’s journalistic writings.

• Introduction: Black Spain in Afro-EuropeRosalía Cornejo-Parriego and Ana León-TávoraChapter 1: From Negrophilia to Necropolitics: Anti-Black Racism in Spanish Avant-Garde Humor MagazinesAna León-TávoraChapter 2: The Transnational Afropessimism of Francisco Zamora LobochBaltasar Fra-MolineroChapter 3: The Value of Color: Spain’s Equality Stamps FiascoJeffrey ColemanChapter 4: Using the Web to Educate Spain About Its Afro-Identity: AfroféminasEsther M. Alarcón AranaChapter 5: Hidden Knowledges and Diasporic Positionings: The Autobiographical and Testimonial Texts in Metamba Miago: Relatos y saberes de mujeres afroespañolasJulia BorstChapter 6: Un-Whitening Late Francoist Spain: Knots of Memory in Lucía Mombío’s Las que se atrevieronMartin RepineczChapter 7: Decolonizing the History of Afro-Spaniards: Afrofeminismo. 50 años de lucha y activismo de mujeres negras en España (1968-2018) by Abuy NfubeaDosinda García-AlviteChapter 8: Mapping Black Women Through Art and Social Media: the Case of Montserrat AnguianoStefania LicataChapter 9: From Below and from Within: Urban Peripheries in Lucía Mbomío’s BarrionalismosRosalía Cornejo-ParriegoChapter 10: An Inconclusive Conclusion: Autoethnography as a Model for Epistemic DecolonizationAna León-Távora