Black Americas Network

In this section network collaborators are provided with a space for sharing projects, papers, presentations, book chapters, artwork, and audiovisual material which deal with the diverse aspects of political, social and cultural life in the Black Americas. Just like our network this space finds itself in a steady process of construction, and is intended to grow with the number of people who join this project. We encourage you to submit your contributions!

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• Paulina Alberto, "El Negro Raúl: Lives and Afterlives of an Afro-Argentine Celebrity, 1886 to the Present" in: Hispanic American Historical Review 96:4, 2016.

 

• Paulina Alberto, "Of Sentiment, Science and Myth: Shifting Metaphors of Racial Inclusion in Twentieth-Century Brazil" in: Social History, 37:3, 261-296, 2012.

 

• Paulina Alberto, "When Rio Was Black: Soul Music, National Culture, and the Politics of Racial Comparison in 1970s Brazil" in: Hispanic American Historical Review 89:1, 2009.

 

• Sandra Alvarez, "Negra cubana tenía que ser: A diez años de un primer día"

 

• Alejandra Aguilar, "Heroísmo y conciencia racial en la poeta afro-cubana Cristina Ayala" , in: Meridional. Revista Chilena de Estudios Latinoamericanos 7"Escritoras latinoamericanas del siglo XIX y primera mitad del XX." October 2016.

 

• Alejandra Aguilar, "El esclavo y el letrado: máscaras de la auto-representación en la temprana narrativa antiesclavista cubana" , in: Confluence: Romance Language Journal of Saint Louis University. Volume 2, Spring 2013.

 

• George Reid Andrews e Alejandro de la Fuente, orgs., "Estudos afro-latino-americanos: Uma introdução" , (Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 2018).

 

• Alejandro de la Fuente y George Reid Andrews, eds., "Estudios afrolatinoamericanos: Una introducción" , (Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 2018).

 

• George Reid Andrews, "Negros en la nación blanca: historia de los afro-uruguayos, 1830-2010" , (Montevideo: Linardi y Risso, 2011).

 

• Jairo Baquero,"Multi-Scalar Resistance and Teritorial Defense by Afro-Descendants in Colombia: The Lower Atrato Case" , in: Mobilizing Ethnicity - Competing Identity Politics in the Americas: Past and Present, ed. by Eric Javier Bejarano et al. (Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2013), pp. 245-265.

 

• Vilna Bashi Treitler,"Social Agency and White Supremacy in Immigration" , in: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Vol. I(I), 2015, pp. 153-165.

 

• Vilna Bashi Treitler, "Globalized Anti-Blackness: Transnationalizing Western Immigration Law, Policy, and Practice" , in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 27(4), 2004, pp. 584-606.

 

• Vilna Bashi Treitler and Antonio McDaniel,"A Theory of Immigration and Racial Stratification" , in: Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 27(5), 1997, pp. 668-682.

 

• Natalie Caro, "Poems"

 

• C.B Claiborne and Wilfried Raussert, "Transcultural Literacy and Mobility"(2014)
   
• Diana Fulger, "Rap cubano"
   
• Diana Fulger,"Inventos - Cuban Rap in a Transnational, Diasporic Context" , in: Cruzando fronteras en América/Crossing Boundaries in the Americas, ed.by Wilfried Raussert, Yolanda Minerva Campos García, Margarita Ramos Godínez (Universidad de Guadalajara, 2015.
   
• Maryemma Graham,"Black Is Gold: African American Literature, Critical Literacy, and Twenty- First- Century Pedagogies" , in: Contemporary African American Literature - The Living Canon, ed. by Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013), pp. 55-90.
   
• Carla Guerrón Montero, "Tourism, Cultural Heritage and Regional Identities in the Isle of Spice" , in: Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 2015, 13(1):1-21
   
• Carla Guerrón Montero, "Multicultural Tourism, De-Militarization, and the Process of Peace-Building in Panama." , in: Special Issue Tourism and Social Control in the Americas, Derrick Hodge and Walter Little, editors. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 2014, 19(3):418-440
   
• Carla Guerrón Montero, "Afro-Antillean Presence in the Latin American Melting Pot" , in: African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States, editor Persephone Braham. Wilmington, DE: University of Delaware/Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, pp. 29-45
   
• Carla Guerrón Montero,"'Can't Beat me Own Drum in me Own Native Land:' Calypso Music and Tourism in the Panamanian Atlantic Coast" , in: Anthropological Quarterly 79, 2006, (4):633-663
   
• Astrid Haas, "A continent of color: Langston Hughes and Spanish America" , in: Expanding Latinidad: An Inter-American Perspective, ed. by Luz A. Kirschner, Tempe: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 2012, pp. 177-194.
   
• Robin Hayes, Documentary "Black and Cuba"(2013)
   
• Sandra García Sanborn,"Race, Resistance, and Human Rights: Agenda and Practices of a Multi-Ethnic Afro-Argentinean Community " , Paper presented at IAS conference "Human Rights in the Americas", University of California Santa Barbara, October 6, 2016
   
• Agustin Lao-Montes,"Afro-Latinidades and the Diasporic Imaginary" , in: Iberoamericana, V, 17 (2005), pp. 117-130
   
• Agustin Lao-Montes, "Afroamerican Movements: Political Contests and Historical Challenges", , Keynote Presentation, Conference "Afro-Latinos: Global Spaces/Local Struggles" , University of California at Los Angeles, March 6-7, 2008/p>
   
• Agustin Lao-Montes,"Cartografías del campo político afrodescendiente en América Latina" , in: Universitas Humanística, no.68 (2009), pp. 207-245
   
• Agustin Lao-Montes,"Empoderamiento, descolonización y democracia sustantiva. Afinando principios ético-políticos para las diásporas Afroamericanas" , in: CS, No. 12 (2013), pp. 53-84
   
• Alanna Lockward, Documentary "Allen Report. Retracing Transnational African Methodism"(2016)
   
• Anne Garland Mahler, "“Todos los negros y todos los blancos y todos tomamos café”: Race and the Cuban Revolution in Nicolás Guillén Landrián’s Coffea arábiga" in Small Axe published by Duke Univeristy Press, pp. 55-75. 2015
   
• Nelson Maldonado-Torres, "Ten Theses on Coloniality and Decoloniality", published by Frantz Fanon Foundation, 2016
   
• Manuel Monestel,"Negritud, resistencia cultural y ciudadanía en letras de calypsos limonenses"
   
• Lázaro Pérez, "Dibujos de Papucho" (Paintings of Papucho)
   
• Paula Prescod and Adrian Fraser,"A demolinguistic profile of St Vincent and the Grenadines: or a successful attempt at linguistic disenfranchisement" , in: Anthropos: International Review of Anthropology and Linguistics 103/1, pp 99-112, 2008.
   
• Ángel G. Quintero, "Los modales, el baile y el cuerpo"
   
• Wilfried Raussert, "Tracing Afro Diasporic Histories: Translocational Storytelling and Entangled Afro Americas in Ntozake Shange's Sassfrass, Cypress & Indigo and Edwidge Danticat's Brother I'm Dying" , in: Mobile and Entangled America(s), ed. by Maryemma Graham and Wilfried Raussert (New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. 51-72
   
• Nicolas Rey,"Les Garifunas: Entre « Mémoire de la Résistance « aux Antilles etTransmission des Terres en Amérique Centrale»" , in: Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines,177 (2005), 152-155.
   
• Nicolas Rey, "Caraïbes noirs et "negros franceses" (Antilles/Amérique centrale): le périple de Noirs "révolutionnaires" ,in: Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos [En línea], Debates, 2005.
   
• Nicolas Rey,"Mémoire de la « résistance » et accès à la terre aux Amériques noires" , in: Diaspora Noires, (Oct 2006).
   
• Nicolas Rey, "La huelga general de 2009 en las Antillas francesas: una lucha de clase en una situación de tipo colonial" , in: Cuadernos de Antropología, No. 20 (2010).
   
• Nicolas Rey, "La Movilización de los Garífunas para reservar sus tierras `ancestrales` en Guatemala" , in: Revista Pueblos y Fronteras, vol. 5, no. 8 (2009/ 2010), pp. 30-59.
   
• Karla Slocum, "Negotiating Identity and Black Feminist Politics in Caribbean Research" , in: Black Feminist Anthropology - Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001, pp. 126-149.
   
• Karla Slocum and Deborah A. Thomas,"Rethinking Global and Area Studies: Insights from Caribbeanist Anthropology" , in: American Anthropologist 105(3): 2003, pp. 553-565.
   
• Karla Slocum and Tanya L. Shields, "Critical Explorations of Gender and the Caribbean: Taking it into the Twenty-First century" , in: Identities, 15:6, 2008, pp. 687-702
   
• Matti Steinitz,"Raising consciousness on the dancefloor: Soul, Funk, and Black Power in Latin American contexts", , Paper presented at IV Biennial Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies "Human Rights in the Americas", University of California, Santa Barbara, October 4-6, 2016
   
• Matti Steinitz, "A Brand New Beat: Soul music as message carrier of theUS African American freedom struggle in the Black Americas (1965-1975)", , Paper presented at International CIAS Conference "Reflecting the Americas as Space of Entanglements", Bielefeld University, October 27-29, 2016
   
• Mirta Toledo, works include portraits of the series Héroes Afrodescendientes Argentinos Invisibilizados. This series, commissioned by Instituto Argentino para la Igualdad, Diversidad e Integración(IARPIDI), comprises a total of 40 portraits.
   
• Juan José Vélez-Peña, "Rearticulación de la música afroantillana en la obra poética de Luis Palés Matos y Nicolás Guillén: precursores de un pensamiento crítico intercultural-decolonial" , in: The CLR James Journal A Review of Caribbean Ideas A Publication of the Caribbean Philosophical Association, Vol. 21, numbers 1 & 2, Fall 2015.
   
• Peter Wade, "Afro-Latin Studies: Reflections on the field" , in: Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, (2006), pp. 105-124
   
• Peter Wade, "African diaspora and Colombian popular music in the twentieth century" , in: Black Music Research Journal 28(2) (2008), pp. 41-56.
   
• Peter Wade, "Defining blackness in Colombia" , Journal de la Société des Américanistes 95.1 (2009), pp. 165-184.
   
• Peter Wade, "Brazil and Colombia: Comparative Race Relations in South America" , in: Proceedings of the British Academy 179 (2012), pp. 35-48.
   
• Peter Wade, "Afro-Colombian Social Movements" , in: Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America (2012), edited by Kwame Dixon and John Burdick (Gainesville: University Press of Florida), pp. 135-155.