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Introduction
Authors: Masiki Trent 
Published: December 2024

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In the Introduction, I argue that Afro-Latino memoirs often bridge the gap between the cultures and literary canons of Latino Americans and African Americans, broadly defined. These memoirs often function as, what I call in Chapter 1, transcanonical texts. Using the concept of the post-soul condition as a point of departure, I review the history of the Afro-Latino presence in the US; identify five significant Afro-Latino memoirists and their African American influences; introduce the concept of ethnoracial apprenticeship by examining the relationship between the memoir and bildungsroman genres; introduce the concept of the Afroethnic Renewal to explore the intersection of Black immigration, Black literary production, and the politics of panethnic nomenclature; and theorize how the relationship between Latinidad, African American culture, and the post-soul condition help us understand how and why African American narrative strategies, cultural tropes, and political ideologies influence the process of ethnoracial identity formation in the Afro-Latino memoir.
Laughing the Demons Away
Authors: Masiki Trent 
Published: December 2024

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In Chapter 1, I call attention to Piri Thomas’s literary apprenticeship under John Oliver Killens. Killens and Thomas were both members of the Harlem Writers Guild (HWG), of which Killens was one of five co-founders. The HWG had aesthetic roots in the Popular Front and its members played decisive roles in the development of the Black Arts Movement. The analytical sections of the chapter examine the relationship between Latinidad, heteronormative masculinity, and Black consciousness. In these sections, I focus on two instances of Thomas’s use of African American racial humor and vernacular culture. I analyze a cowardice joke that contrasts the trope of Indigenous bravery with the stereotype of African American pusillanimity as responses to White racial terror. In addition, I demonstrate that Thomas’s use of signifying to resist White infantilization intertextually “tropicalizes” an African American protest joke derived from Youngblood, the debut Killens novel that inspired Down These Mean Streets. The analysis of the immersion narrative, the cowardice joke, and the signifying protest joke reveals that Down These Mean Streets is what I call a transcanonical text. It is, I contend, as much a foundational text of the Black Arts Movement as it is of the Nuyorican Movement.
From Bohemian Piolo to Leftist Jorocón
Authors: Masiki Trent 
Published: December 2024

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Chapter 2 brings attention to an understudied Afro-Latino memoir, Carlos Moore’s Pichón: Race and Revolution in Castro’s Cuba (2008). Moore was born in Central Lugareño, Cuba in 1942. However, from 1957 to 1961, he lived in New York City. During this adolescent period of his life, Moore came of age ideologically and politically. I explore the uneasy tension between his bohemian liberal humanism and the flowering of his radical Pan-African consciousness, a flowering that was nurtured by his Afro-Panamanian English teacher and through encounters with African American intellectuals and activists like Lewis H. Michaux, Maya Angelou, Harold Cruse, and Malcolm X. Chapter 2 examines this tension by analyzing the role that African American jazz/blues interventions and Black nationalist oratory play in the transformation of Moore’s political consciousness.
Morenophilia/Morenophobia
Authors: Masiki Trent 
Published: December 2024

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Chapter 3 examines the relationship between the post-soul condition and When the Spirits Dance Mambo: Growing Up Nuyorican in El Barrio (2004) by Dr. Marta Moreno Vega. Although WSDM is set in the 1950s, the context of its composition and publication are mediated by the Afrocentric and multiracial discourses of the post-soul era. As an Afrocentric Puerto Rican scholar and memoirist, Vega complicates debates about Black cynicism and authenticity in Nelson George’s Post-Soul Nation and Debra Dickerson’s The End of Blackness, two post-soul treatises that were published in the same year as WSDM. In this chapter, I examine the philias and phobias of Afro-Latino and African American interculturalism in WSDM to enrich and invite conversations about Afro-Latinidad’s relationship to the post-soul condition. Vega makes a diasporic connection between Afro-Latinos and African Americans by fusing Katherine Dunham, the famous African American choreographer, with La Dominadora, a spirit guide in the Afro-Caribbean religion known as Santerismo. The figurative fusion of Dunham and La Dominadora reifies Vega’s theory of the Black Global Aesthetic (BGA). Vega’s fusion is informed by her doctoral research on the history of Latin jazz and Santería in post-war New York, a history in which Dunham played a major role.
Post-Soul Latinidad
Authors: Masiki Trent 
Published: December 2024

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Chapter 4 examines post-soul representations of Black nationalism and speculative realism in Veronica Chambers’s Mama’s Girl (1996) and Raquel Cepeda’s Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina (2013). Chambers and Cepeda’s memoirs include a significant admixture of African American history, culture, and political ideology. Chambers and Cepeda were raised in New York City in the wake of the Black Power movement. As they came of age, Chambers and Cepeda were attracted to the antipodes of Black nationalism. Chambers repeatedly invokes the civil rights movement’s integrationist agenda in Mama’s Girl, and she does so in a way that valorizes Talented Tenth elitism and neoliberal luck egalitarianism. In contrast, Cepeda was aligned in spirit, if not in practice, with the cultural separatist pole of Black nationalism. She was attracted to the hip hop and theosophy of the Five Percent Nation, a splinter sect of the Nation of Islam, as well as to Santería, Kabbala, and the scientific arcana of genealogical genetic profiling. The ways in which the antipodes of Black nationalism mediate Latinidad in Mama’s Girl and Bird of Paradise reveal the significance of the African American presence in Latina autobiography and highlight the commensurability between Latino and African American studies.
Coda
Authors: Masiki Trent 
Published: December 2024

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The Coda explores the Afro-Latino memoir’s relationship to American literary nationalism, the postrace aesthetic, and interethnic trends in comparative Latino literary studies. In the Coda, I argue that Afro-Latino memoir writers take the existence of US literature and the sociopolitical utility of cultural nationalism for granted, demonstrating their acknowledgment of the constitutive aesthetic and political influence that African American literature and Black nationalism had on their development as writers, activists, and community organizers. The Coda goes on to examine how the postrace aesthetics of the Afro-Latino memoir simultaneously reproduce and critique of the American Dream. It concludes by calling for more comparative literary studies that not only examine how Afro-Latinidad functions among Latinos and Afro-Latinos, but also for more studies that analyze how Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism intraracially bind Afro-Latinos and African Americans.
Introduction
Authors: Woolner Cookie 
Published: December 2024

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The Famous Lady Lovers introduces readers to the vibrant worlds made by Black queer women in the Interwar era, and the important mark they made on American culture in this time. The book begins with the story of a southern migrant in Chicago who left her husband to be with a woman. This leads to a discussion of how ongoing historical events such as the Great Migration, Prohibition, and changing ideas of gender and sexuality helped create the circumstances through which Black lady lovers could find one another in northern cities. The introduction lays out the book’s aim and intervention along with an overview of the literature on Black women’s sexuality and intimate lives in historical scholarship on topics such as popular performance, sexology, respectability, and includes chapter overviews and a note on terminology.
Woman Slain in Queer Love Brawl
Authors: Woolner Cookie 
Published: December 2024

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The first chapter examines five cases covered in Black newspapers from New York and Chicago about violent acts between alleged Black lady lovers. These articles did the cultural work of introducing the concept of “the lesbian” to Black readers as an inherently criminal figure. The articles reveal that by the early 1920s, Black women gathered in their homes for holidays without men, and by the mid-1920s, the concept of lesbianism was becoming more familiar to mainstream America. While women’s independence was often championed by the 1920s, the Black press depicted lady lovers as criminal, aggressive, and unnatural, thereby making queer women further associated with negative qualities. Yet by reading these sources “against the grain,” they reveal the social networks Black queer women were forging in the urban North.
Beyond the Kitchen Table
Authors: McCutcheon Priscilla , Best Latrica E. , Rajack-Talley Theresa 
Published: December 2024

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This chapter introduces the edited volume and the three sections that comprise it. Book editors define intersectionality in detail, explaining why they and all contributors take this approach to exploring Black women’s contributions to agriculture, food, and health globally. The editors also describe the intentionality of having majority women of color contributors, all of whom identify the barriers that Black women face in accessing a safe and healthy food system, but also how Black women have fought against a lack of food access and food injustice at every scale. The first section “From the Fields,” brings forth how Black women across the globe use scientific knowledge to grow crops that feed their families and communities and improve their economies. In the second section, “Food and Social Justice,” authors highlight Black women’s historical contributions to building a just food system, and how Black feminist thought, or practices of mothering and othermothering continue to impact food justice work today. And finally in the last section, “Food Security, Health and Well-Being,” authors highlight the nuance in describing the relationship between Black women, food and health in different geographic contexts, and the importance of taking an intersectional approach.
Rural Women, Household Food Provisioning, and Dry-Season Groundwater Irrigation in Northern Ghana
Authors: Kwoyiga Lydia , Apusigah Agnes Atia 
Published: December 2024

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Women contribute between 60 and 80 percent of household food in some countries within Sub-Saharan Africa. They reside largely in rural communities and are subject to stresses that undermine their entitlements as food producers. In Ghana, efforts to address the challenges have resulted in alternatives that extend the production period from wet to dry season. This chapter examines the contributions of rural women to household food provision through dry-season groundwater irrigation. It focuses on (i) rural women’s roles as household food providers (ii) factors that drive such women to engage in an activity largely driven by men, (iii) ways by which such activity makes available food to the household directly and indirectly, (iv) benefits and challenges for these women and their household and finally (v) ways for mitigating change. It employs mixed methods and analysis techniques to argue that as household food providers women exercise their agency in navigating the many barriers they face.
From Farm to Kitchen
Authors: Sawadogo/Compaoré Eveline M. F. W. , Shiratori Sakiko 
Published: December 2024

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In Burkina Faso, agriculture employs over 90 percent of the workforce (FAO 2014), but despite efforts put in by the government, food insecurity remains critical in rural areas. Women play transformative roles in the food system: from farm production to direct consumption. This chapter centers on a study on the role of women in household food security in Burkina Faso. It aims at understanding the role and the power of African women regarding consumed food at the household level by documenting the patterns of how cowpea (considered a “women’s crop,”) is cooked and is now seen as the most promising food for nutritional improvement for Africans. A 24-hour recall was used to monitor and document food cooking and consumption in more than 200 households in two regions of Burkina Faso for 2 years. Information on demographics, dietary habits, and anthropometry was collected from both quantitative and qualitative methods. The results show that what is cooked, and the way food is cooked in households, is mainly the responsibility of women who have silently taken control of household food consumption and should therefore not be neglected in strategic planning for food security.
The Role of Women in Sustainable Agriculture in Three Global Regions
Authors: McCutcheon Gloria Sanders 
Published: December 2024

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Black women utilize a variety of methods to ensure a sustainable food system. These methods are oftentimes holistic, combining Black women’s knowledge of the natural and social world. One of these ways is by regulating pest insects with other naturally occurring beneficial insects such as tiny parasitic wasps on crops. This chapter investigates Black women’s roles in managing parasitic wasps in three world regions: the southern United States of America, the Caribbean (Cuba), and sub-Saharan Africa (Zimbabwe). It highlights the health and generational impact that Black women’s sustainable management of the parasitic wasp has on future generations as they pass on their management practices to their children. The role of Black women whether scientist or homemaker or farmer or economist, reveal commonalities that support the promotion of alternatives to chemical control as a method to improve health and the environment, and decrease costs in food crop production. The author also interrogates why and how her experiences as a Black female entomologist resulted in an unintentional ethnography where she found that Black women were ultimately the holders of agrarian knowledge in communities.
Fish Farming
Authors: Campo Kenia-Rosa , Isaac Wendy-Ann , Badrie Neela , Webb Marquitta 
Published: December 2024

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The underperformance of the agriculture industry in developing countries can be linked to gender inequalities including in the Caribbean country Trinidad and Tobago where socio-cultural norms curtail women producers’ access to productive resources, including education, land, technologies, information, financial services, and markets. At the same time, the country’s gender policy advances that differences based on sex should neither exist nor be exploited. It is within this context that this chapter argues for the need to design interventions that are more conducive to empowering and engaging women so that they can better the agricultural sector’s performance. It does this through a case study that investigates women’s empowerment in an aquaculture project located in the fishing village of Ortoire, Mayaro. Fish production is considered as one of the most effective tools to address poverty alleviation, food and nutrition insecurity, and empowering rural communities economically.
Making Spaces Something Like Freedom
Authors: Reese Ashanté M. , Cooper Dara 
Published: December 2024

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This chapter explores Black women’s leadership in food justice and food sovereignty movements; more specifically, the underlying political commitments that compel the way Black women lead movements, engage the earth and growing, and offer care work within their networks. In this essay, the authors first explore how Black women use Black feminism as a political and personal framework for their food justice efforts, particularly in terms of their leadership, relationship building, and stewardship of the earth. Secondly, they draw from Christina Sharpe’s notion of an ethic of care that emerges when attempting to make spaces of freedom to offer theoretical and methodological observations of how Black feminist thought and practice help us to re/see and re/imagine more equitable food systems.
Recipes for Resistance
Authors: Ford Claudia J. 
Published: December 2024

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This essay provides a critical historiography of the role that Black women have played in the food justice movement to further amplify voices that have been silenced in cooking spaces and food justice writing. As a part of telling this history, the author uses storytelling, including her own upbringing picking tomatoes in her grandmother’s Bronx Garden, to weave her way through an important historical analysis of Black women in food justice. These women include: famed New Orleans chef Leah Chase; the women of Rise and Root Farm; Barbara Norman, who owns a blueberry farm; and Edith Floyd, who established Growing Joy Community Gardens. The author’s goal is to move beyond the individual fight to improve a healthy lifestyle and position these Black women as fighting for community food justice. Moreover, these spaces are community healing spaces.
I Put Food on Everyone’s Table
Authors: Garth Hanna 
Published: December 2024

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Based on long-term ethnographic research, this chapter draws on three generations of Black women from a low-income family in Santiago de Cuba. The chapter details the women’s household labor to feed the family, paid domestic labor, cooking and cleaning in the homes of wealthier white Cubans, and entrepreneurial endeavors, such as raising pigs, and selling prepared food, as ways to generate income. The chapter analyzes the women’s experiences within a broader phenomenon of luchando la vida (struggling for life) as Cuban families continue to struggle to access food and maintain a decent quality of life as the socialist welfare state continues to falter in post-Soviet Cuba. This chapter demonstrates the various forms of labor that Black women engage in to ensure food security of the broader population and the health and nutrition of their own families. The chapter highlights the role of grandmothers, arguing that in addition to their role as matriarch and center of the family, Black grandmothers also teach the skills necessary for luchando la vida. Thus, their work is central to the alleviation and prevention of poverty, hunger, and malnutrition.
Tasting Freedom
Authors: Gomes Shelene 
Published: December 2024

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This chapter centers the food cultures of Caribbean Rastafari migrants and the multicultural and multireligious second generation in urban Ethiopia. Drawing upon rich mixed methods research in a multiethnic neighborhood in Shashamane, Ethiopia, this chapter examines the connections between food and work of Black Rastafari women who migrated to Ethiopia from Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. The chapter details the experiences of two Rastafari women in the establishing of their food beits (family restaurants or “family houses”) to highlight how establishing these food beits are a way for them to achieve autonomy, while still engaging in ital (natural or health) living and upholding Caribbean ideals of womanhood and motherhood. The chapter also explores Rastafari women’s reckoning with various aspects of food, from changing food tastes across generations, to adjustments in spices and ingredients, and the gendered distinctions of productive and reproductive work.
Exercising Agency, Navigating Marginalization, and Maintaining Silent Control in Global Food Systems
Authors: Rajack-Talley Theresa , Best Latrica E. , McCutcheon Priscilla 
Published: December 2024

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This final chapter synthesizes the chapters in each of the three sections and provides an analysis of how these chapters underscore the importance of Black women’s voices within global food systems. Often, Black women’s voices are silenced and relegated to the “kitchen table,” or domestic labor that is secondary to household economies. The chapters in this book, the editors denote, debunk this myth by highlighting the resilient and transformative nature in which Black women have asserted their agency into various aspects of global food systems. Black women’s agency is exhibited far beyond the “kitchen table” and is showcased within a variety of elements within food systems, from agricultural pursuits to entrepreneurial efforts and social justice activism. Black women’s cultural and food-related knowledge and decision making has lasting impacts on the wellbeing of themselves, their families, and their communities. The editors conclude by emphasizing the significance of examining the role of Black women in global food systems within activist, scholarly and policymaking spaces, particularly as it relates to societal issues, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
Introduction
Authors: Dizon Mark 
Published: December 2024

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This chapter discusses the cross-cultural encounters between Indigenous communities and Spanish colonizers in the borderlands of Luzon. It contends that coincidences and overlaps in Spanish and Indigenous practices, particularly in their reciprocal mobilities, created the openings for their alliances and enmities. In line with a more mobile sense of history, the various borderland actors, including Spaniards, were fellow travelers who walked, visited, welcomed, and rejected each other all over the island. This introductory chapter uses a case study from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to give a brief historical background to the eighteenth-century mobilities and frictions tackled in greater detail in the rest of the book and to offer a quick glimpse of the book’s main themes and arguments.
Roads and Crossings
Authors: Dizon Mark 
Published: December 2024

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The analysis in this chapter combines the materiality and experience of everyday mobility with the changing social configuration of borderland communities. It explores how the two co-constructed each other. The chapter discusses Spanish plans to construct a road running directly from Manila to Cagayan to solve the problem of mobility in the island’s interior and shows how the process of opening the road was not a purely infrastructural or topographical issue. Negotiations with and the acquiescence of key communities along the route were crucial in the success of the project. Even though missionaries claimed ownership over the opening of the road, in the final analysis local communities generally determined who had access to the roads.
Setting Sail
Authors: Cothran Boyd , Shubert Adrian 
Published: December 2024

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The Prologue sets the scene and tone for the book by introducing readers to the work’s main character: the India-built British merchant vessel, the Edwin Fox. It then establishes the major themes of the work, explaining how it tells the story of globalization between the years 1850 and 1914 through the voyages of a single, work-a-day merchant vessel. It contends that a microhistorical approach to the history of globalization highlights the local and human agency at work and creates opportunities to explore the myriad complexities and the intimate and unexpected interconnections that really were the stuff of globalization. The Prologue also situates the work within the relevant historiography and provides a brief overview of the book’s structure.