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. 

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