SPEAKER’S INFO
Professional Website – Institute for the Study of “Race” and Social Justice
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
Individual Scholars/Artists, Interviews, and Poetry
Baez, Josefina. Storyteller, Artist, Performer.
Curtis, Ariana. Curator of Latinx Studies, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Guillén, Nicolás. El Apellido (The Last Name). Holguín, Cuba: Editorial Cuadernos Papiro, 2012.
Hernandez, Ramona. Director, CUNY Dominican Studies Institute
Silvio Torres-Saillant, Dean’s Professor of the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University.
Organizations
Institute for Dominican Studies
Articles, Books and Reports
Candelario, Ginetta. Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
Collins, Patricia Hill. Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019.
Galdámez, Misael, Morís Gomez, Rocio Perez, Lupe Renteria Salome,Julia Silver, Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas, Jie Zong, Nancy López. Centering Black Latinidad and Complex Inequalities Report. UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute. April 20, 2023
Hernández, Tanya K. Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black bias and the Struggle for Equality. Boston: Beacon Press, 2022.
Jiménez Román, Miriam and Flores, Juan. The Afro-Latin@ Reader. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.
LaVeist-Ramos, Thomas A, Galarraga J, Thorpe RT, Bell C, Austin CJ. “Are Black Hispanics Black or Hispanic?: Exploring Health Disparities at the Intersection of Race and Ethnicity” J Epidemiol Community Health. 2012 Jul;66(7):e21.
López Oro, Pablo. Indigenous Blackness: The Queer Politics of Self-Making Garifuna New York – forthcoming
Pérez, Loida Maritza. Geographies of Home: A Novel. New York: Penguin, 2000.
Rodriguez, Clara. Puerto Ricans: Born in the U.S.A. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989.
SPEAKER’S INFO
Professional Website and Publications
X: @Eduard Arriaga-Arango
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
Digital Projects and Databases
Caras Lindas Podcast – On Caras Lindas, hosts Manuel Mendez explore the intersection of blackness in Latinx communities by shedding light on the neglected and untold stories of Afro-Latinx people.
Datalabe – Citizen Data Generation Database in Brazil
Rede Mocambos – Rede Mocambos is a solidarity movement that brings together quilombola, indigenous, nartesans and artists people and communities in the quest to build a world, more our way.
AfroLatin@Project – Our mission is to serve as a resource center and cultural advocate for documentation and preservation of cultures, histories, and experiences of Afrodescendant people in the Americas and the Caribbean. Our vision is to successfully use technological tools in promoting awareness and research.
Podcast do Minas Programam – This is the podcast from Instituto Minas Programam. In each episode, we talk to black women from all over Brazil about how we use digital technologies to fight for social justice.
Individual Scholars
SPEAKER’S INFO
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
Articles, Books, and Reports
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, The Civil Contract of Photography, New York: Zone Books, 2012.
Marisa Fuentes, Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
Saidiya Hartman, “Venus in Two Acts,” Small Axe, Number 26 (Vol. 12, no. 2), June 2008, 1-14
Audio/Visual Material
Stuart Hall, Lecture “Representation in the Media,” University of Westminster, November 30, 2021
SPEAKER’S INFO
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
Articles, Books, and Reports
Adames, H. Y., Chavez-Dueñas, N. Y., & Jernigan, M. M. (2021). The Fallacy of a Raceless Latinidad: Action Guidelines for Centering Blackness in Latinx Psychology. Journal of Latinx Psychology, 9(1), 26–44. https://doi.org/10.1037/lat0000179
Gonzalez, Dulce, Nancy López, Michael Karpman, Karishma Furtado, Genevieve M. Kenney, Marla McDaniel, Claire O’Brien (2022). Observing Race and Ethnicity through a New Lens: An Exploratory Analysis of Different Approaches to Measuring “Street Race”, Urban Institute, December 6, Wellness & Basic Needs Survey (WBNS). Research Brief, Urban Institute, December 6: https://www.urban.org/research/publication/observing-race-and-ethnicity-through-new-lens
López, Nancy & Howard Hogan (2021). “What’s Your ‘Street Race’? The Urgency of Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality as ‘Lens’ for Revisiting the U.S. Office of Management and Budget Guidelines, Census and Administrative Data in Latinx Communities and Beyond,” Genealogy, 5(3):75-81.
Galdámez, Misael, Morís Gomez, Rocio Perez, Lupe Renteria Salome,Julia Silver, Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas, Jie Zong, Nancy López (April 2023). Centering Black Latinidad and Complex Inequalities Report. UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute. https://latino.ucla.edu/research/centering-black-latinidad/
Documentary
Gates, Henry Louis Jr., Pollack, Ricardo, Petterle, Diene, & Trachtman, Ilana. (2011). Black in Latin America. PBS Distribution.
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
Interviews and Panels
Slate podcast – Fear of a Black Cuban Planet
Red Table Talk: The Estefans – How to Speak Up to Help Cuba
Articles, Books, and Reports
Afro-Cuban Migration
Gosin, Monika. The Racial Politics of Division : Interethnic Struggles for Legitimacy in Multicultural Miami. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019.
Greenbaum, Susan D. More than Black : Afro-Cubans in Tampa. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.
Garcia, José Manuel. Voices from Mariel : Oral Histories of the 1980 Cuban Boatlift. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018.
Rodríguez Milanés, Cecilia. Marielitos, Balseros and Other Exiles. Brooklyn, N.Y: Ig Pub., 2009.
Roth, Wendy. Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race. 1st ed. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2012.
Afro-Cuban History, Culture, Religion and Spirituality:
Cabrera, Lydia. El Monte : Notes on the Religions, Magic, and Folklore of the Black and Creole People of Cuba. Translated by David Font-Navarrete. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023.
Gómes-Cásseres, Patricia González. “Afro-Cuban Religions: Spiritual Marronage and Resistance.” Social and Economic Studies 67, no. 1 (2018): 117–36.
Howard, Philip A. Changing History : Afro-Cuban Cabildos and Societies of Color in the Nineteenth Century. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998.
Goodman, Erin. “San Isidro Movement: What It Is and Why You Should Know aAbout It,” StartupCuba.tv. November 25, 2020.
Moore, Carlos. Castro, the Blacks, and Africa. Los Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies, University of California, 1988.
Olupona, Jacob K. (Jacob Kẹhinde), and Rowland Abiodun, eds. “Ifa Divination, Knowledge, Power, and Performance,” 1st ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016.
Otero, Solimar. Archives of Conjure : Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2020. doi:10.7312/oter19432.
Palmié, Stephan. Fernando Ortiz: Caribbean and Mediterranean Counterpoints. 1st ed. Chicago: HAU Books, 2023.
Wedel, Johan. Santería Healing: A Journey into the Afro‐Cuban World of Divinities, Spirits, and Sorcery. Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2004.
SPEAKER’S INFO
Professional Website, Performances, and Publications
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/afroperuvian.experience/
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
Bilingual Children’s Book
Nadia Calmet, Cajón, Cajita y Quijada. [Big Box, Little Box, and Jaw Instruments] A bilingual children’s book https://nadiacalmet.com/
Articles, Books, and Reports
Golash-Boza, Tanya Maria. Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru. University Press of Florida, 2011. https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813035741
Jouve Martn, Jos Ramn. The Black doctors of colonial Lima: Science, race, and writing in colonial and early republican Peru. Montréal & Kingston : McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014/ – https://www.mqup.ca/black-doctors-of-colonial-lima–the-products-9780773543416.php
Schmidt, Bettina E. “Afro-Peruvian Representations in and around Cusco: a Discussion about the Existence or Non-existence of an Afro-Andean Culture in Peru,” Indiana, vol. 24, 2007, pp. 191-209https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/2470/247016522009.pdf
Walker, Tamara J. Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima. Cambridge University Press, 2017.https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/exquisite-slaves/BEAD666CF0168961808487C26C11CA10
Websites
Afro-Peruvian Music and Dance, Performing and Visual Arts Resource, Smithsonian Folklife Festival, 2015. https://festival.si.edu/2015/peru/performing-and-visual-arts/afro-peruvian-music/smithsonian
Susana Baca, Real World Records: https://realworldrecords.com/artists/susana-baca/
Susana Baca, YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJylhNaFwb6f8H-qhQV3fQ
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
Organizations
Lugo Martinez, Diana – Forward Together
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice
National Partnership for Women and Families
Articles, Books, and Reports
Galdámez, Misael, Morís Gomez, Rocio Perez, Lupe Renteria Salome,Julia Silver, Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas, Jie Zong, Nancy López. Centering Black Latinidad and Complex Inequalities Report. UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute. April 20, 2023.
Hernández, Tanya Katerí. Racial Innocence : Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality. Boston: Beacon Press, 2022.
Hernández, Tanya Katerí. Inocencia Racial: Desenmascarando la antinegritud de los latinos y la lucha por la igualdad (Spanish Edition). Beacon Press, 2024.
Holder, Michele and Alan Aja, Afro-Latinos in the U.S. Economy, Lexington Books. 2021
Jiménez Román, Miriam, and Juan Flores. The Afro-Latin@ reader: history and culture in the United States. London: Duke University Press, 2010.
Van Sertima, Ivan. Blacks in Science : Ancient and Modern. New Brunswick, N.J. ; Transaction, 1983.
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
Alves Cruz, Eliane. Agua de Barrela. Editora Malê, 2020.
Davis, Angela. Woman, Race, and Class, New York: Random House, 1981.
Farfán-Santos, Elizabeth. Black Bodies, Black Rights : The Politics of Quilombolismo in Contemporary Brazil. First edition. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2016.
Hernández, Tanya Katerí. Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality. Boston: Beacon Press, 2022.
Krenak, Ailton – Indigenous Movement Leader
Patterson, Orlando. Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1982.
Paulino, Rosana – Afro-Brazilian Artist, Educator, Researcher
Silva, Cidinha da, #Parem de nos matar! Pólen Livros, 2019.
Silva dos Santos, Andréia Beatriz and Borges dos Santos, Hamilton, Rise Up or Die!: The Struggle Against the Genocide of Black People in Brazil New York: Common Notions, 2025.
Michele Reid-Vazquez, Ph.D. 