Description: This volume collects intellectual work by and about Black women while shedding light on the socio-political conditions that shape their participation and leadership in political struggles for citizenship rights and resources. Additionally, this volume explores the role of the social sciences in documenting anti-Black violence and forging hemispheric struggles against that violence.
Review Quotes: "Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean is a key intervention against the citational erasure of Afro-Latin American women intellectuals that simultaneously highlights their intellectual contributions and political activism. At a historical moment when Black women are taking on prominent roles as elected national leaders in countries such as Costa Rica and Colombia, this edited volume brings together excellent, rigorously researched essays on the transnational feminist activism of black women in multiple Latin American countries, including Brazil, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Cuba, Colombia, and Peru. In so doing it broadens the geographic and conceptual boundaries of Black Studies, Latin American Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies."
--Juliet Hooker "author of Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos"