{"product_id":"black-feminist-constellations-9781477328309","title":"Black Feminist Constellations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Black women in Latin America and the Caribbean suffer a triple erasure: as Black people, as women, and as non-English speakers in a global environment dominated by the Anglophone North. \u003ci\u003eBlack Feminist Constellations\u003c\/i\u003e is a passionate and necessary corrective. Focused on and written by Black women of the southern Americas, the original works composing this volume make legible the epistemologies that sustain radical scholarship, art, and political organizing by Black women everywhere. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In essays, poems, and dialogues, the writers in \u003ci\u003eBlack Feminist Constellations\u003c\/i\u003e reimagine liberation from the perspectives of radical South American and Caribbean Black women thinkers. The volume’s methodologically innovative approach reflects how Black w\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Sacred Word of Women: A Performance (Elizandra Souza; translation by Christen A. Smith) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Palavra Sagrada de Mulher: Uma Performance (Elizandra Souza) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Toward a Dialogic Transnational Black Feminism: An Introduction (Christen Smith and Lorraine Leu) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part I. Radical Movements: Caring for Life \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Oriki to Sueli (Elizandra Souza; translation by Luana Moreira Reis) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 1. A Feminism So Complex and So Radical (Sueli Carneiro; translation and introduction by Christen A. Smith) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 2. Black Women’s Intellectual Contributions to the Americas: Perspectives from the Global South (Sueli Carneiro; translation and editing by Lorraine Leu) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 3. Is It Time to Say Goodbye to “Feminism”? (Florencia Gomes; translation by Daisy E. Guzman Nuñez) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 4. Black Feminist(s) Work in Argentina (Florencia Gomes and Prisca Gayles; introduction, interview, and translation by Prisca Gayles) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 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 ) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 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) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 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) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 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) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part II. Radical Roots: Genealogies of Thought \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 9. A Genealogy of Black Left Feminist Claims (Carole Boyce Davies) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 10. How Will We Organize to Live? Andaiye’s Radical Praxis (D. Alissa Trotz) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 11. From the Archives: CAFRA Conversations--Audre Lorde and Andaiye \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 12. A Brief Introduction to the Life and Work of Sylvia Wynter: Early Life and Work(s) (Bedour Alagraa) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 13. The Life and Work of Sylvia Wynter in the Americas (A conversation between Carole Boyce Davies, Bedour Alagraa, and Yomaira Figueroa) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 14. Visualizing Blackness in Brazil (Rosana Paulino with Lorraine Leu; translation by Lorraine Leu) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 15. Settlement: Rosana Paulino and Black Women’s Insubordinate Geohistories (Lorraine Leu) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 16. Diasporic Memories: Black Women Writers’ Lived Experiences and Ancestralities (Elizandra Souza; translation by Christen A. Smith) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Coda. Whirlwind Women\/Mulheres redemoinhos (Elizandra Souza; translation by Luana Moreira Reis) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Editors, Contributors, and Translators \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867284025687,"sku":"9781477328309","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477328309.jpg?v=1722282588","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/black-feminist-constellations-9781477328309","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}