Stories of Latin American Women of African Heritage

Stories of Latin American Women of African Heritage: Daughters of Muntu highlights the significant contributions of women in the African diaspora to the Americas. It will be a valuable resource to those interested in Latin American Studies, Gender Studies, and Race Studies among other disciplines.

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María Mercedes Jaramillo Professor Emirita at Fitchburg State University. She was President of the Association of Colombianist (2011-2013). Her research explores Latin American theater, women writers and Colombian literature and culture.

Lucía Ortiz is a Professor of Spanish in the Department of Humanities at Regis College in Massachusetts. Her research focuses on Afro-Latin American literature and women's literature.

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Stories of Latin American Women of African Heritage: Daughters of Muntu highlights the significant contributions of women in the African diaspora to the Americas. It will be a valuable resource to those interested in Latin American Studies, Gender Studies, and Race Studies among other disciplines.

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Prologue: Black Women in Cuban Literature of Centuries Past

Introduction

Argentina

1. White Mothers and Wet Nurses

2. My Beautiful Black Sisters

Brazil

3. Watercolor of Brazil: Shades of a Society - From Pigmentocracy towards Democracy

4. Benedita da Silva: From the Favelas of Rio to the Halls of Power

5. The Black Voice of a Favelada: Race, Gender and Nation in the Testimony of Carolina Maria de Jesus

Colombia

6. Afro-Colombian Women's Music: La Negra Grande de Colombia and Totó la Momposina

7. Lolia Pomare Myles: A Bridge Between the Old World and the New

8. Piedad Córdoba: Between Controversy and Conviction

9. The Voice of Edelma Zapata Pérez - Afro-Colombian Poet Interview

10. Afro-Colombian Women Voices from the Margin: Mary Grueso Romero and María Elcina Valencia Córdoba

11. María Teresa Ramírez and María de los Ángeles Popov: Heiresses of Yemayá and Changó

12. Goyo: Driving Chocoano Rap

13. Life Stories of Women from Palenque in Colombia

Costa Rica

14. Emphatically Black. Reading the Poetry of Costa Rica's Shirley Campbell Barr

Cuba

15. An Island for Sara Gómez

16. Hilda Oates: An Afro-descendant Cuban Actress

17. Omara Portuondo: The Diva of Cuban Music from Las D'Aida to Buena Vista Social Club

18. The Poetic World of Nancy Morejón

19. Raise Your Voice, Break the Margins: Rap and Female Discourse

20. Celia Cruz: Live to Sing

Ecuador

21. Luz Argentina Chiriboga, "Esmeraldas' Star"

Honduras

22. Ritual Practices of Globalization: Garifuna Women

Mexico

23. Luz María Martínez Montiel: "Ambassador of the African Renaissance in Latin America and Mexico"

Peru

24. Fortitude and Charisma: Victoria Santa Cruz

25. Woman, Mother, and Leader: María Elena Moyano and the Courage of Commitment

Puerto Rico

26. Ruth Fernández: The Soul of Puerto Rico in Song

27. Breaking Paradigms and Creating New Archetypes: The Black Character in the Works of Mayra Santos Febres

28. Queeriqueña Futures and Black Liberation in the Work of Yolanda Arroyo

Dominican Republic

29. Salomé Ureña de Henríquez (1850-1897)

30. The Triple Marginality: Florinda Soriano (Mamá Tingó)

31. Sherezada Vicioso and the Construction of Her Own Caribbean

Uruguay

32. Stars in the South: Martha Gularte, Lágrima Ríos and Rosa Luna

33. Alba Roballo: "Nevertheless, I am alive"

34. An Interview with Cristina Rodríguez Cabral: The Continuous Process of Identity and Its Poetic Projection

Venezuela

35. Carmen Verde Arocha: "I believe being a poet is a destiny"