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Machado De Assis, Blackness, And The Americas

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 Examines the reception of Brazil''s most-canonized writer in the United States to shed light on questions of Blackness and hemispheric American experience.Considered a genius in his own lifetime, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is Brazil''s most canonized writer. Yet, he remains a contested and even enigmatic figure to readers in Brazil and abroad, his relative silence on slavery leaving him vulnerable to charges of aspirations to whiteness. Machado de Assis, Blackness, and the Americas reconsiders this issue by exploring how his prose fiction has been received in the United States. In seven original essays, contributors re-examine his novels and short stories, as well as photographs of the writer, in order to better understand the strategies he employed to navigate Brazil''s literary scene as a man of African descent. Framed by a contextualizing introduction and an afterword in the form of a conversation between the editors, the volume speaks to and with our own historical moment and the realities of Black lives in the Americas over the course of the last two centuries.
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From Havana To Hollywood - Slave Resistance In The Cinematic Imaginary

by Philip Kaisary

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 Centers Cuban cinema to explore how films produced in Havana or Hollywood differently represent Black resistance to slavery.From Havana to Hollywood examines the presence or absence of Black resistance to slavery in feature films produced in either Havana or Hollywood-including Gillo Pontecorvo''s Burn!, neglected masterpieces by Cuban auteurs Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Sergio Giral, and Steve McQueen''s Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave. Philip Kaisary argues that, with rare exceptions, the representation of Black agency in Hollywood has always been, and remains, taboo. Contrastingly, Cuban cinema foregrounds Black agency, challenging the ways in which slavery has been misremembered and misunderstood in North America and Europe. With powerful, richly theorized readings, the book shows how Cuban cinema especially recreates the past to fuel visions of liberation and asks how the medium of film might contribute to a renewal of emancipatory politics today.
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Transatlantic Bondage - Slavery And Freedom In Spain, Santo Domingo, And Puerto Rico

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 A deeply researched, pathbreaking collection of original and newly translated essays on slavery in Spain, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico.This groundbreaking volume addresses the enslavement and experiences of Black Africans in Spain and the Spanish Caribbean, particularly La Española (or Hispaniola) and Puerto Rico, two of the earliest colonies. Spanning nearly four hundred years and rooted in extensive archival research, Transatlantic Bondage sheds light on a number of relatively underexamined topics in these locales, including the development and application of slavery laws, disobedience and its consequences, migration, gender, family, lifestyle, and community building among the free Black population and white allies. In bringing together new and recent work by leading scholars, including two essays translated into English here for the first time, the book is also a call for further study of slavery in the Spanish Caribbean and its impact on the region.
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Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty

by Ana-Maurine (University Of Oregon) Lara

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 Evocative, innovative ethnography of spiritual practices and forms of queer, black, and indigenous life in the Dominican Republic.
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Bay Lodyans - Haitian Popular Film Culture

by Cecile Accilien

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 Considers how popular Haitian films not only provide entertainment but also help audiences in Haiti and the diaspora think through daily challenges.In Haitian Creole, bay lodyans means to tell stories to an audience, and more generally, to entertain. This book is the first to analyze popular contemporary Haitian films, looking especially at how they respond to the needs and desires of Haitian audiences in and beyond Haiti. Produced between 2000 and 2018 and largely shot with digital cameras and sometimes cellphones, these films focus on the complexities of community, nostalgia, belonging, identity, and the emotional landscapes of exile and diaspora. They reflect sociopolitical and cultural issues related to family, language, im/migration, religion, gender, sexuality, and economic hardship. Using storytelling and other less traditionally "academic" techniques, Cécile Accilien advances Haitian epistemological frameworks. Bay Lodyans integrates terms and concepts from Haitian culture, such as jerans and kafou (derived from the French words for "to manage" and "crossroads," respectively) and includes interviews with Haitian filmmakers, actors, and scholars in order to challenge the dominance of Western theoretical approaches and perspectives.
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San Mateo De Cangrejos - Historical Notes On A Self-Emancipated Black Community In Puerto Rico

by Gilberto Aponte Torres

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 Establishes the central role of Afro-Puerto Ricans in the island''s history and the creation of its capital city, San Juan.Originally published in Spanish in 1985 as part of a book series commissioned by Banco Popular, this slim volume makes an invaluable contribution to the history of Black people in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean more broadly. Today, San Mateo de Cangrejos is known as Santurce-a stylish district in the capital of San Juan, birthplace of Harlem Renaissance intellectual and collector Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, and home of the Santurce Cangrejeros for which baseball legends Roberto Clemente and Willie Mays once played. Gilberto Aponte Torres''s brief yet transformative history is not about the feats of such "great men" but rather the "human foundations" of this unique municipality. San Mateo de Cangrejos was founded in the seventeenth century by cimarrones, or maroons, who were fleeing enslavement on neighboring islands and were later recognized as free by local authorities. Never losing sight of the significance of this fact, Aponte Torres details the religious life of Cangrejos, its economic and urban development, demography, military contributions, and eventual annexation by San Juan in 1862. Thoughtfully translated by Karen Juanita Carrillo, the English edition of San Mateo de Cangrejos includes photographs, a glossary, and other new features to help situate readers and further illuminate the deep roots of Black culture on the island.
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Drops Of Inclusivity - Racial Formations And Meanings In Puerto Rican Society, 1898-1965

by Milagros Denis-Rosario

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 A critical view of race relations on the island of Puerto Rico from 1898 to 1965.Drops of Inclusivity examines race and racism on the island of Puerto Rico by combining a wide-angle historical narrative with the individual stories of Black Puerto Ricans. While some of these Afro-Boricuas, such as Roberto Clemente and Ruth Fernández, are well known, others, such as Cecilia Orta and Juan Falú Zarzuela, have been largely forgotten, if remembered at all. Individually and collectively, their words and lives speak to the persistent power of racial hierarchies and responses to them across periods, from the Spanish-American War at the turn of the twentieth century to Martin Luther King, Jr.''s visit to the island in the early 1960s. Drawing on rich archival research, Milagros Denis-Rosario shows how Afro-Boricuas denounced, navigated, and negotiated racism in the fields of education, law enforcement, literature, music, the military, performance, politics, and more. Each instance of self-determination marks a gain in inclusivity-gota a gota, or drop by drop, as the saying goes in Puerto Rico. This study pays homage to them.
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Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty

by Ana-Maurine Lara

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 Evocative, innovative ethnography of spiritual practices and forms of queer, black, and indigenous life in the Dominican Republic.
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Identities In Flux - Race, Migration, And Citizenship In Brazil

by Niyi Afolabi

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 Reevaluates the significance of iconic Afro-Brazilian figures, from slavery to post-abolition.Drawing on historical and cultural approaches to race relations, Identities in Flux examines iconic Afro-Brazilian figures and theorizes how they have been appropriated to either support or contest a utopian vision of multiculturalism. Zumbi dos Palmares, the leader of a runaway slave community in the seventeenth century, is shown not as an anti-Brazilian rebel but as a symbol of Black consciousness and anti-colonial resistance. Xica da Silva, an eighteenth-century mixed-race enslaved woman who "married" her master and has been seen as a licentious mulatta, questions gendered stereotypes of so-called racial democracy. Manuel Querino, whose ethnographic studies have been ignored and virtually unknown for much of the twentieth century, is put on par with more widely known African American trailblazers such as W. E. B. Du Bois. Niyi Afolabi draws out the intermingling influences of Yoruba and Classical Greek mythologies in Brazilian representations of the carnivalesque Black Orpheus, while his analysis of City of God focuses on the growing centrality of the ghetto, or favela, as a theme and producer of culture in the early twenty-first-century Brazilian urban scene. Ultimately, Afolabi argues, the identities of these figures are not fixed, but rather inhabit a fluid terrain of ideological and political struggle, challenging the idealistic notion that racial hybridity has eliminated racial discrimination in Brazil.
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Racialized Visions - Haiti And The Hispanic Caribbean

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 The first volume in English to explore the cultural impact of Haiti on the surrounding Spanish-speaking nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.As a Francophone nation, Haiti is seldom studied in conjunction with its Spanish-speaking Caribbean neighbors. Racialized Visions challenges the notion that linguistic difference has kept the populations of these countries apart, instead highlighting ongoing exchanges between their writers, artists, and thinkers. Centering Haiti in this conversation also makes explicit the role that race-and, more specifically, anti-blackness-has played both in the region and in academic studies of it. Following the Revolution and Independence in 1804, Haiti was conflated with blackness. Spanish colonial powers used racist representations of Haiti to threaten their holdings in the Atlantic Ocean. In the years since, white elites in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico upheld Haiti as a symbol of barbarism and savagery. Racialized Visions powerfully refutes this symbolism. Across twelve essays, contributors demonstrate how cultural producers in these countries have resignified Haiti to mean liberation. An introduction and conclusion by the editor, Vanessa K. Valdés, as well as foreword by Myriam J. A. Chancy, provide valuable historical context and an overview of Afro-Latinx studies and its futures.
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Gendered Aesthetics Of Blackness - Afro-Cuban Women'S Visual Art And Activism

by Rosita Scerbo

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Machado De Assis, Blackness, And The Americas

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From Havana To Hollywood - Slave Resistance In The Cinematic Imaginary

by Philip Kaisary

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From Havana To Hollywood - Slave Resistance In The Cinematic Imaginary

by Philip Kaisary

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Spirit Of Haiti

by Myriam J. A. Chancy

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Bay Lodyans - Haitian Popular Film Culture

by Cecile Accilien

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Bay Lodyans - Haitian Popular Film Culture

by Cecile Accilien

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Feminist Spiritualities - Conjuring Resistance In The Afro-Caribbean And Its Diasporas

by Joshua R. Deckman

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Feminist Spiritualities - Conjuring Resistance In The Afro-Caribbean And Its Diasporas

by Joshua R. Deckman

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Black In Print - Plotting The Coordinates Of Blackness In Central America

by Jennifer Carolina Gomez Menjivar

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Black In Print - Plotting The Coordinates Of Blackness In Central America

by Jennifer Carolina Gomez Menjivar

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San Mateo De Cangrejos - Historical Notes On A Self-Emancipated Black Community In Puerto Rico

by Gilberto Aponte Torres

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San Mateo De Cangrejos - Historical Notes On A Self-Emancipated Black Community In Puerto Rico

by Gilberto Aponte Torres

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Relocating The Sacred - African Divinities And Brazilian Cultural Hybridities

by Niyi Afolabi

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