Happy Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean Women’s Day! In order to honor the intellectual work done on and by Afro-Latinx and Caribbean women, we’ve organized a reading list of books and articles that think through racial, gender, and sexual politics in the Black Diaspora!
ALT Poster reading "Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean Women's Day"
ALT Reading List of Articles:
Facing the Dragon: Black Mothering, Sequelae, and Gendered Necropolitics in the Americas
by Christen A. Smith
"Look at Her Hair": The Body Politics of Black Womanhood in Brazil
by Kia Lilly Caldwell
“Brides” without Husbands: Lesbians in the Afro-Brazilian Religion Candomblé
by Andrea Stevenson Allen
“¡Los gringos vienen!" (The gringos are coming!): Female respectability and the politics of Congo tourist presentations in Portobelo, Panama
by Renée Alexander Craft
“Yo la bomba no la bailé, la bomba yo la vivé” (I Didn’t Just Dance Bomba, I Lived It): The Pedagogy of Daily Puerto Rican Life, Black Feminist Praxis and the Batey by Sarah Bruno
ALT Reading List of Books:
Being La Dominicana: Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo (2021)
by Rachel Afi Quinn
Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil (2013)
by Keisha-Khan Y. Perry
Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica (2008)
by Gina A. Ulysse
The Politics of Passion: Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora (2006)
by Gloria Wekker