Roswell, New Mexico And The Dead Futures Of Latinx Speculative Fictions,
2019
Chapman University
Roswell, New Mexico And The Dead Futures Of Latinx Speculative Fictions, Renee Hudson
English Faculty Articles and Research
With the predominance of Chicanxs in Latinx speculative fictions as the impetus behind this cluster, I want to consider how Latinxs are represented in popular culture, especially when the creators of such Latinx characters are not Latinxs themselves. Turning to popular representations, I contend, acts as a litmus test for how Latinx issues are widely perceived as well as how these concerns are perpetuated within popular media. The Roswell reboot, Roswell, New Mexico offers one such instance as both the showrunner, Carina Adly MacKenzie, and Melinda Metz, the author of Roswell High, the show on which the series is …
Imagining The Futures Of Latinx Speculative Fictions,
2019
Chapman University
Imagining The Futures Of Latinx Speculative Fictions, Renee Hudson
English Faculty Articles and Research
"To combat the speculative fictions Trump conjures into reality, we must look to more liberatory forms of speculative fiction, especially ones that imagine a future for Latinxs at a time when such futures seem to be foreclosed by the concentration camps proliferating within the borders of the United States. At the same time, we must interrogate how our speculative imaginaries are, at times, limited by the contradictions of latinidad. Latinidad presumably names a shared, collective identity based on Latin American origins that seem to supersede differences in race, religion, and class (among other identitarian categories). However, a number of scholars …
Cinematographic Landscapes Of Blackness In Mexico: (Re)Framing Afro-Mexican Lives & Futures,
2019
Southern Methodist University
Cinematographic Landscapes Of Blackness In Mexico: (Re)Framing Afro-Mexican Lives & Futures, Talia Weltman-Cisneros
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
The legacy of historical invisibility and socio-cultural marginalization and rejection have marred contemporary Afro-Mexican lives, silencing their stories, customs, traditions, and cosmologies, while also denying them a sense of belonging and place within the visions of the present and futures of Mexican landscapes. Mexican films have often echoed this estranged relationship between blackness and Mexicanidad, portraying black characters as stereotyped figures who have most often been marked as exotic, primitive, and alien or anachronic in Mexico. However, these subaltern imaginaries of blackness and of Afro-Mexicanidad are challenged in the recent films La negrada (2018) and Artemio (2017). This article …
Black Agency And Aesthetic Innovation In Sergio Giral's El Otro Francisco,
2019
Carleton University
Black Agency And Aesthetic Innovation In Sergio Giral's El Otro Francisco, Philip Kaisary
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
In 2013, Henry Louis Gates lamented the tradition of whitewashing and the passing over of slave stories which has become commonplace throughout cinematic history: “there have been all too few films that have captured, or even attempted to convey, the truth of the experience of slavery, from the slave’s point of view” and even fewer “worthy of recognition.” While it is true that there have been some high-profile films produced in the last decade – 12 Years a Slave, Django Unchained, and Birth of a Nation, among others – that have endeavored to represent slavery from the …
Afro-Latin American Documentary Resistance From The Pacific Coast: How Voces De Resistencia (2017) Changes The Landscapes Of Aesthetics, Academia/Community Collaboration, And Black Feminist Activism During The Colombian "Peace Process", Sarah Ohmer
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
Voces de Resistencia, Capítulo 1, is a short documentary film with an original soundtrack composed and performed by Black Colombian female folk a cappella chorus, or alabadoras. The multimedia product makes use of Black feminist pedagogy and resistance: it portrays a silenced and oppressed group in Bojayá, Colombia. The focus on alabadoras singers and composers promotes self-definition and exposes the power of self-determination in songwriting, an a cappella chorus performance, and documentary filmmaking.
African Immigrants In Argentina Post-Slavery: An Old-New Odyssey,
2019
Texas A&M University
African Immigrants In Argentina Post-Slavery: An Old-New Odyssey, Alain Lawo-Sukam
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
In this interdisciplinary article, I address the less known migration of Africans in South America, especially in Argentina. This is significant because studies on African migrations have focused mainly on European and North American routes (north-south), living aside south-south paths. The complex experience of the first African immigrants in Argentina relates to a certain extent and also contrasts with the recent migrations of the twenty-first century. Because of (post)colonial history, collective/personal experience and stories, African immigrants are finding new homes in Argentina. However, recent changes in immigration policies relaxed under previous governments could jeopardize this el dorado. This article …
Codings Of Blackness In Mexican Cinema: An Analysis Of La Negrada,
2019
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Codings Of Blackness In Mexican Cinema: An Analysis Of La Negrada, Ebony Marie Bailey
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
In a country whose national identity revolves around the idea of mestizaje, Blackness has been omitted from official discourses surrounding mexicanidad. As a result, Afro populations in Mexico have been subjected to codings that render them invisible, otherized and inferior. This paper analyzes the codings of Blackness in Mexico as reflected in the space of art and cinema, specifically the film La Negrada, the first feature fiction film to introduce an all Afro-Mexican cast. On one hand, there is an attempt to reclaim and make visible Mexico's African roots. On the other, the film also walks the …
So What If She Can't Dance And Sing: A Testimony From The Afrohabanera,
2019
University of Tennessee Knoxville
So What If She Can't Dance And Sing: A Testimony From The Afrohabanera, Dawn Duke
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
From the early 1990s, a new film gained momentum in which there were no actors, i.e. contracted, paid, and famous, rather ordinary people, residing at the fringes of society, who momentarily were on camera, guided by a director determined to film realistic images. Cidade de Deus (Brazil), Pixote: a lei do mais fraco (Brazil), La vendedora de rosas (Colombia), Rodrigo D (Colombia), and Ratas y ratones (Ecuador) are examples. There is little footage about Cubans during the Special Period (1989-1995). Further, until then no production had directly and realistically focused on Afro-Cuban women. Rolando Díaz's 1998 production, Si me comprendieras …
Marca Peru: Representations And Exclusions Of The Afro-Descendant Population From The Official Narrative Of The Peruvian Government,
2019
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Marca Peru: Representations And Exclusions Of The Afro-Descendant Population From The Official Narrative Of The Peruvian Government, Ana Lucía Mosquera Rosado
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
The article will examine the representations of Afro-Peruvians in the video "Peru Nebraska," a documentary produced as part of the launching of the advertising campaign of Marca Peru, a national branding project elaborated by the Peruvian government in 2010. By examining the participation of the Afro-descendant population in this audiovisual piece, the document will relate these representations to the discourses of diversity, race, and citizenship in Peru. The article will also explore the nature of the discourses of ethnic and racial diversity in Peru in the new construction of the national and will evaluate the construction of the social …
Sister Ursula De Jesús' Equal Economy Of Salvation,
2019
Grinnell College
Sister Ursula De Jesús' Equal Economy Of Salvation, Valérie Benoist
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
The article examines the diary of Peruvian sister Ursula de Jesús, the first known spiritual journal produced by a black woman in colonial Spanish America. The account, written in first person and consisting of fifty-seven folios, mainly describes sister Ursula's visions and her life inside the Lima convent where she came to be highly revered as a mystic during the seventeenth century. The recognition that this black woman gained was particularly high considering that she lived at a time when most people in the Ibero-transatlantic world associated Afro descendants with the Devil. This fact along with the richness of sister …
A Power Man’S Theology: Marvel’S Luke Cage And Black Liberation Theology,
2019
Abilene Christian University
A Power Man’S Theology: Marvel’S Luke Cage And Black Liberation Theology, Diarron B. Morrison
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Netflix released Marvel’s Luke Cage in 2016 to critical acclaim. Born from a 1970s comic book, the series features Luke Cage, an African-American superhero. Cage is a big, bald, bulletproof black man. Instead of tights and a cape, Cage wears a hoodie calling the audience to remember Trayvon Martin and other victims of white racism. Theologian James Cone created Black Liberation Theology in the 1970s. As a result of Cone’s work, Black Liberation Theology addresses the issue of white racism from a theological standpoint. In this thesis I present a close reading of Marvel’s Luke Cage using Black Liberation Theology …
Latinas In Transition And Translation: The Latina In Latinx Studies,
2019
CUNY City College
Latinas In Transition And Translation: The Latina In Latinx Studies, Mariana Romo-Carmona
Open Educational Resources
This course will study the contributions of Latina writers to the field of Latinx Studies in the United States. Through their literary and scholarly work, we will explore the historical roots of Latino/a culture in this country and how the politics of race, gender, and class have defined the field of Latinx Studies, with Latinas at the forefront of the struggle.
Bridging The Cultural And Linguistic Divide Through Virtual Exchange,
2019
Xavier University
Bridging The Cultural And Linguistic Divide Through Virtual Exchange, Diane Ceo-Difrancesco, Carolina Marturet De Paris, Oscar Kennedy Mora, Xóchitl León Oyarzabal, Edison Rene Santacruz Bastidas, María Mena-Böhlke, Olaf Böhlke
Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal
The AUSJAL/AJCU Virtual Exchange Program maximizes the strengths of the Jesuit educational mission and its network to establish sustainable partnerships across borders, language and cultural divides. Initiated in 2006 as a grass roots project between two language instructors, the collaboration has grown to involve 22 universities, 29,561 students and 200 instructors in an innovative, high impact practice that leverages technologies to foster global engagement through virtual interaction. This study documents the perspectives of U.S. and Latin American students participating in virtual exchange experiences at five Jesuit universities. Specifically, research methodology included qualitative data collection to examine the impact of a …
"How Do We Help Everybody Heal?" Implications Of Guadalupan Devotions At Dolores Mission Parish,
2019
Seminary of the Southwest, Austin
"How Do We Help Everybody Heal?" Implications Of Guadalupan Devotions At Dolores Mission Parish, Jennifer Owens-Jofré
Journal of Hispanic / Latino Theology
No abstract provided.
Ruben Rosario Rodriguez, Dogmatics After Babel: Beyond The Theologies Of World And Culture,
2019
Princeton Theological Seminary
Ruben Rosario Rodriguez, Dogmatics After Babel: Beyond The Theologies Of World And Culture, Stacy Guinto-Salinas
Journal of Hispanic / Latino Theology
No abstract provided.
The Doctrine Of Discovery, Latinxo Theoethics, And Human Rights,
2019
Emmanuel College of the University of Toronto
The Doctrine Of Discovery, Latinxo Theoethics, And Human Rights, Nestor Medina
Journal of Hispanic / Latino Theology
No abstract provided.
Efrain Agosto And Jacqueline M. Hidalgo, Editors, Latinxs, The Bible, And Migration,
2019
University of San Diego
Efrain Agosto And Jacqueline M. Hidalgo, Editors, Latinxs, The Bible, And Migration, Victor Carmona
Journal of Hispanic / Latino Theology
No abstract provided.
Together En La Lucha: Achtus 2019 Presidential Address,
2019
University of Dayton
Together En La Lucha: Achtus 2019 Presidential Address, Neomi De Anda
Journal of Hispanic / Latino Theology
No abstract provided.
Puerto Rico: Necrópolis,
2019
CUNY Hunter College
Puerto Rico: Necrópolis, Yarimar Bonilla
Publications and Research
No abstract provided.
The Summer 2019 Uprising: Building A New Puerto Rico,
2019
University at Albany, State University of New York
The Summer 2019 Uprising: Building A New Puerto Rico, Pedro Caban
Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship
The summer uprising of 2019 in Puerto Rico was a repudiation of politics as usual and revealed that Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) and Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP) dominance of the island’s political system is no longer assured. The political landscape has been transformed by the popular uprising, and new actors and forces are emerging that may cause Congress to rethink the terms of Puerto Rico’s colonial subordination.
