Feminist Spiritualities

Joshua R. Deckman is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Stetson University.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Spiritual and Emotional Resistance to Empire1. Sacred Memories: Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Mayra Santos-Febres, and the Politics of Race in Puerto Rico 2. The Path of Erzulie: Love, Vodou, and Counter-Imaginations of Hispaniola 3. Afro-Latina Feminisms: Nuyorican, Domincanyork, and Afro-Latinx Political Resistance 4. The Raw Ones: Ibeyi, Las Krudas CUBENSI, and Pedagogies of Resistance Conclusion: Conjuring Paths, Points of Departure Notes Works Cited Index

"Deckman uses this book to make plain our mutual indebtedness to those who support healing by highlighting experiences at the borders of colonialism. The artistic works that fill this book give voice to narratives of pain experienced across the diaspora as well as demonstrate how feminist spiritualities can transcend time and facilitate healing in creating a new narrative of acceptance." — Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work"Feminist Spiritualities provocatively invites us to sit with the decolonizing potential of Afro‐Caribbean ancestral spiritual practices and how they shape feminist and queer practices of shared love, joy, and pain across difference in the islands and their diasporas. A twist on decolonial thought inspired by the possibilities of other worlds and solidarities emerging from within Afro‐Caribbean creative imaginaries." — Alaí Reyes‐Santos, author of Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles