In Translating Blackness Lorgia García Peña considers Black Latinidad in a global perspective in order to chart colonialism as an ongoing sociopolitical force. Drawing from archives and cultural productions from the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe, García Peña argues that Black Latinidad is a social, cultural, and political formation—rather than solely a site of identity—through which we can understand both oppression and resistance. She takes up the intellectual and political genealogy of Black Latinidad in the works of Frederick Douglass, Gregorio Luperón, and Arthur Schomburg. She also considers the lives of Black Latina women living in the diaspora, such as Black Dominicana guerrillas who migrated throughout the diaspora after the 1965 civil war and Black immigrant and second-generation women like Mercedes Frías and Milagros Guzmán organizing in Italy with other oppressed communities. In demonstrating that analyses of Black Latinidad must include Latinx people and cultures throughout the diaspora, García Peña shows how the vaivén—or, coming and going—at the heart of migrant life reveals that the nation is not a sufficient rubric from which to understand human lived experiences.
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- Contents
- Note on Terminology
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Race, Colonialism, and Migration in the Global Latinx Diaspora
- Part I. On Being Black and Citizen: Latinx Colonial Vaivenes
- 1. A Full Stature of Humanity: Latinx Difference, Colonial Musings, and Black Belonging during Reconstruction
- 2. Arthur Schomburg’s Haiti: Diaspora Archives and the Epistemology of Black Latinidad
- Part II. Black Feminist Contradictions in Latinx Diasporas
- 3. Against Death: Black Latina Rebellion in Diasporic Community
- 4. The Afterlife of Colonial Gender Violence: Black Immigrant Women’s Life and Death in Postcolonial Italy
- 5. Second Generation Interruptions: Archives of Black Belonging in Postcolonial Diaspora
- Conclusion: Confronting Global Anti-immigrant Antiblackness
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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