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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis powerful collection of 16 critical essays takes aim at the myriad forms in whichhate, violence, othering, disenfranchisement, etc., manifest in social life as the resultof dominant power structures supported by the "legacies of white supremacy,homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, ableism, and other injustices and forms ofdiscrimination" (19). It is these power structures, among others, that have keptcertain individuals and communities at the margins. The "margins," as presented in thebook, vary by author and range from the physical (such as prisons) to the symbolic (asin the intersections between methodologies and ideas). . . . The result is an illuminating, moving, and reflexivity-inducing work that takes us into and through very different marginal worlds "among, and with, Mexican, Wolof, Native American, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Haitian, Martinican, Andean, North American, African Diaspora, and LGBTQI folk cultures and communities"(13).
-- Julián Antonio Carrillo * Journal of Folklore and Education *
Table of ContentsPart I: Critical Paths
Introduction: How does Folklore find its voice in the 21st century? An offering/invitation from the margins
1. White Traditioning and Bruja Epistemologies: Rebuilding the House of USAmerican Folklore Studies
2. Un Tumbe Ch'ixi: Incorporating Afro-descendant Ideas into an Andean Anti-Colonial Methodology
3. Disrupting the Archive
Part II: Framing the Narrative
4. Afrolatinx Folklore and Visual Representation: Interstices and Anti-Authenticity
5. Behaving Like Relatives: Or we don't sit around and talk about politics with strangers
6. Political Protest, Ideology, and Social Criticism in Wolof Folk Poetry
7. Sugar Cane Alley: Teaching the Concept of "Group" from a Critical Folkloristics Perspective
8. movimiento armado/armed movement
Part III: Visualizing the Present
9. Ni lacras, ni lesbianas normalizadas: Trauma, matrimonio, conectividad y representación audiovisual para la comunidad lesbiana en Cuba
10. "¿Batata? ¡Batata!": Examining Puerto Rican Visual Folk Expression in Times of Adversities
11. Forming Strands and Ties in the Knotted Atlantic: Methodologies of Color and Practice of Beadwork in Lukumí Religion
12. Of Blithe Spirits: Narratives of Rebellion, Violence, and Cosmic Memory in Haitian Vodou
Part IV: Placing Community
13. "No one would believe us": An Auto-Ethnography of Conducting Fieldwork in a Conflict
14. "La Sierra Juárez en Riverside": The Inaugural Oaxacan Philharmonic Bands Audition on a university campus
15. Hidden thoughts and exposed bodies: art, everyday life, and queering Cuban masculinities
16. Complexifying Identity through Disability: Critical Folkloristic Perspectives on Being a Parent and Experiencing Illness & Disability through My Child
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