Hemispheric Blackness and the Exigencies of Accountability / edited by Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar and Héctor Nicolás Ramos Flores.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gómez Menjívar, Jennifer Carolina, editor.

Ramos Flores, Héctor Nicolás, editor.

Series:

Pitt Latin American series.

Pitt Latin American Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

Black people--Race identity.

Black people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Hemispheric Blackness and the Exigencies of Accountability examines the way Afrodescendant and Black communities use the land on which they live, the rule of law, and their bodies to assert their historical, ontological, and physical presence across South, Central, and North America. Their demand for the recognition of ancestral lands, responsive policies, and human rights sheds new light on their permanent yet tenuous presence throughout the region. The authors argue that by deploying a discourse of transcontinental historical continuity, Black communities assert their presence in local, national, and international political spheres. This conceptualization of hemispheric Blackness is the driving force confronting the historical loss, dismissal, and disparagement of Black lives across the Américas. Through twelve case studies that cover a wide range of locations, their work examines contemporary manifestations of sovereignty of Black body and mind, Black-Indigenous nexuses, and national revisions that challenge more than a quincentennial of denial and state unaccountability in the hemisphere."

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword | Anny Ocoró Loango

Introduction. A Black Transcontinental Movement for the Future | Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar and Héctor Nicolás Ramos Flores

Part I: Epistemic Foundations

Chapter 1. Poner el cuerpo: A History of Black Activism in Argentina | Prisca Gayles

Chapter 2. Spirituality and Black Memory in Reminiscências dos tambores do corpo | Elis Meza

Chapter 3. Echoed Silence: Self-Articulation in Autobiografía de un esclavo | Héctor Nicolás Ramos Flores

Chapter 4. Manuel Zapata Olivella's Fourth Congress of Black Culture in the Americas | Silvia Valero

Part II: Black and Indigenous Nexuses

Chapter 5. We Dance with Existence: Black/Afro-Indigenous Placemaking in Mexico | Ashley Ngozi Agbasoga

Chapter 6. Triunfo de la Cruz v. Honduras: Garifuna Land under International Law | Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar

Chapter 7. Museo de Quíbor: Decolonial History by/for Afro and Indigenous Venezuelans | Robin García

Chapter 8. Devotion, Resilience, and the Tale of an Enslaved Saint in a Venezuelan Oil Town | Oleski Miranda Navarro

Part III: National Landscapes

Chapter 9. Enumerating Blackness: The Shifting Politics of Recognition in Mexico | Karma F. Frierson

Chapter 10. A Motherless World: Temporality, Motherhood, and Afro-Caribbean Writing | Alexandra Algaze González

Chapter 11. Black Rights and Entrepreneurship: New Brazilian Political Subjectivities | Gleicy Mailly da Silva

Chapter 12. Garifunizando Afrolatinidad: Blackness, Indigeneity, and Latinidad | Paul Joseph López Oro

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Gomez Menjivar, Jennifer Hemispheric Blackness and the Exigencies of Accountability

ISBN:

9780822988946

0822988941

OCLC:

1357531340