Overview

In Translating Blackness Lorgia Garcia Pena considers Black Latinidad in a global perspective in order to chart colonialism as an ongoing sociopolitical force. Drawing from archives and cultural productions from the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe, Garcia Pena argues that Black Latinidad is a social, cultural, and political formation-rather than solely a site of identity-through which we can understand both oppression and resistance. She takes up the intellectual and political genealogy of Black Latinidad in the works of Frederick Douglass, Gregorio Luperon, and Arthur Schomburg. She also considers the lives of Black Latina women living in the diaspora, such as Black Dominicana guerrillas who migrated throughout the diaspora after the 1965 civil war and Black immigrant and second-generation women like Mercedes Frias and Milagros Guzman organizing in Italy with other oppressed communities. In demonstrating that analyses of Black Latinidad must include Latinx people and cultures throughout the diaspora, Garcia Pena shows how the vaiven-or, coming and going-at the heart of migrant life reveals that the nation is not a sufficient rubric from which to understand human lived experiences.

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Author:   Lorgia García Peña
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9781478016038

ISBN 10:   1478016035
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   23 September 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Note 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 Contradictions 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

Reviews

"""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 *"

"""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 *"

Author Information

Lorgia GarcÍa PeÑa is Mellon Associate Professor in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University and author of The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction, also published by Duke University Press, and Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color.

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