Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- 6 Whither Latinidad?
- 7 Father Félix Varela and the Emergence of an Organized Latina/o Minority in Early Nineteenth-Century New York City
- 8 Transamerican New Orleans
- 9 Trajectories of ExChange
- 10 Narratives of Displacement in Places that Once Were Mexican
- 11 Under the Skin of Latina Feminism and Racism
- 12 José Martí, Comparative Critique, and the Emergence of Latina/o Modernity in Gilded Age New York
- 13 Afro-Latinidad
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
13 - Afro-Latinidad
Phoenix Rising from a Hemisphere’s Racist Flames
from Part II - The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2018
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- 6 Whither Latinidad?
- 7 Father Félix Varela and the Emergence of an Organized Latina/o Minority in Early Nineteenth-Century New York City
- 8 Transamerican New Orleans
- 9 Trajectories of ExChange
- 10 Narratives of Displacement in Places that Once Were Mexican
- 11 Under the Skin of Latina Feminism and Racism
- 12 José Martí, Comparative Critique, and the Emergence of Latina/o Modernity in Gilded Age New York
- 13 Afro-Latinidad
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
This entry offers an unconventional take on Afro-Latino identity by outlining a historical experience in which African-descended members of the US population who trace their origins to Latin America find themselves at the crossroads of two equally virulent traditions of negrophobic disparagement, one hailing from Latin America and the other from United States. In view of the reticence of US founding father Thomas Jefferson and Latin American Liberator Simon Bolivar to imagine people of African descent as citizens within the contours of the republic, the entry presents the black population of the hemisphere as confined to the condition of an unnatural social implant within the citizenry of the countries they inhabit. The very label “Afro-Latina/o” reveals the need of the population involved to claim a space of belonging outside both the Anglo and the Hispanic realms. The entry closes by viewing Afro-Latinidad as a site of belonging uniquely poised to deploy anti-racist paradigms that target Anglo and Hispanic branches of the hemisphere’s racist traditions simultaneously.
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- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature , pp. 276 - 306Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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