Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora

Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora

  • Autor: Vega, Marta, Alba Marinieves and Yvette Modestin
  • Editor: Arte Público Press
  • ISBN: 9781558857469
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781611924589
  • Lugar de publicación:  Houston , Estados Unidos
  • Año de publicación: 2012
  • Páginas: 240

"“My housewife mother turned into a raging warrior woman when the principal of my elementary school questioned whether her daughter and the children of my public school had the intelligence to pass a citywide test,” Marta Moreno Vega writes in her essay. She knew then she was loved and valued, and she learned that to be an Afro-Puerto Rican woman meant activism was her birth right.
Hers is one of eleven essays and four poems included in this volume in which Latina women of African descent share their stories. The authors included are from all over Latin America—Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Panama, Puerto Rico and Venezuela—and they write about the African diaspora and issues such as colonialism, oppression and disenfranchisement. Diva Moreira, a black Brazilian, writes that she experienced racism and humiliation at a very young age. The worst experience, she remembers, was when her mother’s bosses told her she didn’t need to go to school after the fourth grade, “because blacks don’t need to study more than that.”

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Historical
    • Afro-Venezuelan Cimarronas Desde Adentro
    • Carrera de una cimarrona
  • Personal
    • Bodies and Memories: Afro-Latina Identities in Motion
    • Memories of a Black Woman Activist
    • Black Girls Ride Tricycles Too Thoughts from the Identities of an Afro-descendent and Feminist Woman
    • Afro-Boricua: Nuyorican de Pura Cepa
    • Where the Heart Is: Family, Work and my Binational Life as a Black Brazilian Scholar
    • A Jane Doe
  • Personal Contemporary
    • The Whispers of the Ancestors Development of a Black, Proud, Panamanian Voice
    • Where Roots Grow Again
    • A Life Spirals: Journeys of an Afro-Latina Activist
    • Fatal Conquests: Racial Imposition in Puerto Rico
    • Frente al siglo nuevo
    • Un mundo sin miedo
    • MEDIUM:A Meditation for Diaspora Daughters
  • Editors
  • Contributors

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