Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective
Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective
by Lorgia García Peña
Duke University Press, 2022 Paper: 978-1-4780-1866-7 | Cloth: 978-1-4780-1603-8 | eISBN: 978-1-4780-2328-9 Library of Congress Classification F1419.B55G37 2022
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In Translating Blackness Lorgia García Peña 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, García Peña 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 Luperón, 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 Frías and Milagros Guzmán organizing in Italy with other oppressed communities. In demonstrating that analyses of Black Latinidad must include Latinx people and cultures throughout the diaspora, García Peña shows how the vaivén—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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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.
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
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
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