Description
Book SynopsisDrawing from archives and cultural productions from the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe, Lorgia García Peña considers Black Latinidad in a global perspective in order to chart colonialism as an ongoing sociopolitical force.
Trade Review"García Peña offers an innovative way of thinking about Latinidad and Blackness … Translating Blackness offers significant contributions to the field of Latina/o studies."
-- Annaliese Martinez * Latino Studies *
"García Peña pushes the reader to consider sites that lie outside the common migratory routes of Black Latinx individuals. Bringing together the fields of Black and Latinx studies, García Peña ... offers a transnational conceptualization of Black Latinidad that goes beyond its academic theorization in the U.S. context." -- Shreya Parikh * Lateral *
Table of ContentsNote on Terminology ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Race, Colonialism, and Migration in the Global Latinx Diaspora 1
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 29
2. Arthur Schomburg’s Haiti: Diaspora Archives and the Epistemology of Black Latinidad 79
Part II. Black Feminist Contra
dictions in Latinx Diasporas
3. Against Death: Black Latina Rebellion in Diasporic Community 113
4. The Afterlife of Colonial Gender Violence: Black Immigrant Women’s Life and Death in Postcolonial Italy 153
5. Second Generation Interruptions: Archives of Black Belonging in Postcolonial Diaspora 193
Conclusion: Confronting Global Anti-immigrant Antiblackness 233
Notes 241
Bibliography 279
Index 303
