Title: Afro-Latinidad or Améfricanidad: an Afro-Brazilian perspective
Topics: Black Geographies
, Latinx Geographies
, Latin America
Keywords: Afro-Latinidad, Black Geographies, Brazil, Afro-Latinx Geographies, Afro-Latin American feminism
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Saturday
Session Start / End Time: 2/26/2022 08:00 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/26/2022 09:20 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 80
Authors:
Priscilla Ferreira, Rutgers University- New Brunswick
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Abstract
This work raises discussions about the ambiguities and blindspots that Afro-Brazilian women living in the United States have been grappling with the burgeoning debates around Afro-Latinidad in the media, in Latinx scholarship and activism.
It offers a critical framework of analysis that questions the hegemony of US African-American experiences in Diaspora Studies and shortcomings of Latinx and Latin American Studies in engaging debates around racism and anti-Blackness in particular. I examine the concept of Améfrica Ladina coined by Afro-Brazilian feminist activist-scholar, Lélia Gonzales, and bring it into conversation with the notion of "triple-consciousness" (Blackness-Americannes-Latinidad) proposed by Afro-Latinx scholar Miriam Jimenez and Juan Flores to refer to the particular identity/trajectories/sense of belonging that Afro-Latinx people living in the US experience.
I draw on interviews with Afro-Brazilian women, 1st or 2nd generation migrants, from various scholarly, professional, and activist backgrounds about identity claims to Afro-Latinidad, experiences of in-betweeness, and exclusions from Black US communities and Latinx communities. Interviewees hold different immigration statuses and live in the New York and New Jersey areas, where we find large numbers of Latinx populations of both white and Black racial identities.
I discuss how the concept of Améfrica offers a comprehensive insight into the multiplicity of experience of Blackness among Latinx communities both in Latin America and the United States. I contend that the idea of Améfrica Ladina troubles a limiting dualistic framework that centers (immigration to) the United States as the divisive experiential-geographical factor that defines Afro-Latinx and Afro-Latin American identities, studies, alliances.
Title: Afro-Latinidad or Améfricanidad: an Afro-Brazilian perspective
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Virtual Paper Abstract
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