Description
Book SynopsisA collection of essays, interviews, and conversations by and between scholars, activists, and artists from Latin America and the Caribbean that paints a portrait of Black women's experiences across the region.
Table of Contents
- The Sacred Word of Women: A Performance (Elizandra Souza; translation by Christen A. Smith)
- Palavra Sagrada de Mulher: Uma Performance (Elizandra Souza)
- Toward a Dialogic Transnational Black Feminism: An Introduction (Christen Smith and Lorraine Leu)
- Part I. Radical Movements: Caring for Life
- Oriki to Sueli (Elizandra Souza; translation by Luana Moreira Reis)
- 1. A Feminism So Complex and So Radical (Sueli Carneiro; translation and introduction by Christen A. Smith)
- 2. Black Women’s Intellectual Contributions to the Americas: Perspectives from the Global South (Sueli Carneiro; translation and editing by Lorraine Leu)
- 3. Is It Time to Say Goodbye to “Feminism”? (Florencia Gomes; translation by Daisy E. Guzman Nuñez)
- 4. Black Feminist(s) Work in Argentina (Florencia Gomes and Prisca Gayles; introduction, interview, and translation by Prisca Gayles)
- 5. Intimate Poetics: World-Making through Cuidado de la Vida (Care of Life) in and beyond the Borders of Colombia (Sofía Garzón and Yineth Balanta Mina; introduction by Alysia Mann Carey; translation by Keturah Nichols )
- 6. Black Women’s Epistemological Contributions: Afro-Mexican Women in the Twenty-First Century (Itza Amanda Varela Huerta; translation and editing by Daisy E. Guzman Nuñez)
- 7. Black Women’s Struggle in Mexico: Anti-racism, Community Organization, and Reparation Politics (A conversation between Rosa María Castro Salinas, Itza Amanda Varela Huerta, and Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera; introduction by Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera; translation and editing by Daisy E. Guzman Nuñez and Alida Perrine)
- 8. Beyond Words: Fugitive Embodiments, Creative Praxis, and Trans-Intellectual Genealogies for Black Life (A conversation between Dora Santana and Michaela Machicote; introduction by Michaela Machicote)
- Part II. Radical Roots: Genealogies of Thought
- 9. A Genealogy of Black Left Feminist Claims (Carole Boyce Davies)
- 10. How Will We Organize to Live? Andaiye’s Radical Praxis (D. Alissa Trotz)
- 11. From the Archives: CAFRA Conversations--Audre Lorde and Andaiye
- 12. A Brief Introduction to the Life and Work of Sylvia Wynter: Early Life and Work(s) (Bedour Alagraa)
- 13. The Life and Work of Sylvia Wynter in the Americas (A conversation between Carole Boyce Davies, Bedour Alagraa, and Yomaira Figueroa)
- 14. Visualizing Blackness in Brazil (Rosana Paulino with Lorraine Leu; translation by Lorraine Leu)
- 15. Settlement: Rosana Paulino and Black Women’s Insubordinate Geohistories (Lorraine Leu)
- 16. Diasporic Memories: Black Women Writers’ Lived Experiences and Ancestralities (Elizandra Souza; translation by Christen A. Smith)
- Coda. Whirlwind Women/Mulheres redemoinhos (Elizandra Souza; translation by Luana Moreira Reis)
- Acknowledgments
- Editors, Contributors, and Translators
- Index
