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Author_Lorgia Garcia Pena
Black Latinidad
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Isis Duarte Book Prize winner
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- ISBN 9781478018667
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 23 Sep 2022
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
