Afro-Latin@s in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism in the Americas

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction: Theorizing Afrolatinidades....Pages 1-29
Front Matter....Pages 31-34
The Expediency of Blackness: Racial Logics and Danzón in the Port of Veracruz, Mexico....Pages 35-59
“Ni de aquí, ni de allá”: Garífuna Subjectivities and the Politics of Diasporic Belonging....Pages 61-83
The Death of “la Reina de la Salsa:” Celia Cruz and the Mythification of the Black Woman....Pages 85-107
“Oye, Qué Bien Juegan Los Negros, ¿No?”: Blaxicans and Basketball in Mexico....Pages 109-130
Ritmo Negro: Visions of Afro-Latin America....Pages 131-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-139
Afro-Latin@ Nueva York: Maymie De Mena and the Unsung Afro-Latina Leadership of the UNIA....Pages 141-170
Listening to Afro-Latinidad: The Sonic Archive of Olú Clemente ....Pages 171-194
Panabay Pride: A Conversation with Los Rakas....Pages 195-209
The Afro-LAtino Project....Pages 211-214
Front Matter....Pages 215-220
Translating Negroes into Negros: Rafael Serra’s Transamerican Entanglements Between Black Cuban Racial and Imperial Subalternity, 1895–1909....Pages 221-245
The Transnational Circulation of Political References: The Black Brazilian Movement and Antiracist Struggles of the Early Twentieth Century....Pages 247-267
Every Day Is Black Heritage Month: A Conversation Between Yvette Modestin and Tianna S. Paschel....Pages 269-288
Afterword: Afro-Latinos and Afro-Latin American Studies....Pages 289-303
Back Matter....Pages 305-316