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A collection of essays, interviews, and conversations by and
between scholars, activists, and artists from Latin America and the
Caribbean that paints a portrait of Black women's experiences
across the region. Black women in Latin America and the Caribbean
suffer a triple erasure: as Black people, as women, and as
non-English speakers in a global environment dominated by the
Anglophone North. Black Feminist Constellations is a passionate and
necessary corrective. Focused on and written by Black women of the
southern Americas, the original works composing this volume make
legible the epistemologies that sustain radical scholarship, art,
and political organizing by Black women everywhere. In essays,
poems, and dialogues, the writers in Black Feminist Constellations
reimagine liberation from the perspectives of radical South
American and Caribbean Black women thinkers. The volume’s
methodologically innovative approach reflects how Black women come
together to theorize the world and challenges the notion that the
university is the only site where knowledge can emerge. A major
work of intellectual history, Black Feminist Constellations
amplifies rarely heard voices, centers the uncanonized, and
celebrates the overlooked work of Black women.
Brazilian Popular Music, or MAsica Popular Brasileira (MPB),
developed in the mid 1960s as a response to the re-thinking of
Brazilian national identity following the establishment of the
post-1964 military regime. A leading figure in MPB at this time was
Caetano Veloso, and it is his music and its reception that form the
focus of this book. A leader of the Tropicalist movement, Veloso
sought to initiate a critical debate on Brazilian Popular Music and
the political and ideological foundations which underpinned its
aesthetic. Lorraine Leu examines Veloso's musical and vocal styles,
revealing the ways in which they play with traditional expectations
between the performer and listener, and argues that they represent
an important response to the severe censorship and repression of
the military regime.
Brazilian Popular Music, or MAsica Popular Brasileira (MPB),
developed in the mid 1960s as a response to the re-thinking of
Brazilian national identity following the establishment of the
post-1964 military regime. A leading figure in MPB at this time was
Caetano Veloso, and it is his music and its reception that form the
focus of this book. A leader of the Tropicalist movement, Veloso
sought to initiate a critical debate on Brazilian Popular Music and
the political and ideological foundations which underpinned its
aesthetic. Lorraine Leu examines Veloso's musical and vocal styles,
revealing the ways in which they play with traditional expectations
between the performer and listener, and argues that they represent
an important response to the severe censorship and repression of
the military regime.
Featuring twenty-five key essays from the Journal of Latin American
Cultural Studies (Traves/sia), this book surveys the most
influential themes and concepts, as well as scouring some of the
polemics and controversies, which have marked the field over the
last quarter of a century since the Journal's foundation in 1992.
Emerging at a moment of crisis of revolutionary narratives, and at
the onset of neoliberal economics and emergent narcopolitics, the
cultural studies impetus in Latin America was part of an attempted
intellectual reconstruction of the (centre-) left in terms of civil
society, and the articulation of social movements and agencies,
thinking beyond the verticalist constructions from previous
decades. This collection maps these developments from the now
classical discussions of the 'cultural turn' to more recent
responses to the challenges of biopolitics, affect theory,
posthegemony and ecocriticism. It also addresses novel political
constellations including resurgent national-popular or eco-nativist
and indigenous agencies. Framed by a critical introduction from the
editors, this volume is both a celebration of influential essays
published over twenty five years of the Journal and a
representative overview of the field in its multiple ramifications,
entrenchments and exchanges.
Featuring twenty-five key essays from the Journal of Latin American
Cultural Studies (Traves/sia), this book surveys the most
influential themes and concepts, as well as scouring some of the
polemics and controversies, which have marked the field over the
last quarter of a century since the Journal's foundation in 1992.
Emerging at a moment of crisis of revolutionary narratives, and at
the onset of neoliberal economics and emergent narcopolitics, the
cultural studies impetus in Latin America was part of an attempted
intellectual reconstruction of the (centre-) left in terms of civil
society, and the articulation of social movements and agencies,
thinking beyond the verticalist constructions from previous
decades. This collection maps these developments from the now
classical discussions of the 'cultural turn' to more recent
responses to the challenges of biopolitics, affect theory,
posthegemony and ecocriticism. It also addresses novel political
constellations including resurgent national-popular or eco-nativist
and indigenous agencies. Framed by a critical introduction from the
editors, this volume is both a celebration of influential essays
published over twenty five years of the Journal and a
representative overview of the field in its multiple ramifications,
entrenchments and exchanges.
A collection of essays, interviews, and conversations by and
between scholars, activists, and artists from Latin America and the
Caribbean that paints a portrait of Black women's experiences
across the region. Black women in Latin America and the Caribbean
suffer a triple erasure: as Black people, as women, and as
non-English speakers in a global environment dominated by the
Anglophone North. Black Feminist Constellations is a passionate and
necessary corrective. Focused on and written by Black women of the
southern Americas, the original works composing this volume make
legible the epistemologies that sustain radical scholarship, art,
and political organizing by Black women everywhere. In essays,
poems, and dialogues, the writers in Black Feminist Constellations
reimagine liberation from the perspectives of radical South
American and Caribbean Black women thinkers. The volume’s
methodologically innovative approach reflects how Black women come
together to theorize the world and challenges the notion that the
university is the only site where knowledge can emerge. A major
work of intellectual history, Black Feminist Constellations
amplifies rarely heard voices, centers the uncanonized, and
celebrates the overlooked work of Black women.
Defiant Geographies examines the destruction of a poor community in
the center of Rio de Janeiro to make way for Brazil's first
international mega-event. As the country celebrated the centenary
of its independence, its postabolition whitening ideology took on
material form in the urban development project that staged Latin
America's first World's Fair. The book explores official efforts to
reorganize space that equated modernization with racial progress.
It also considers the ways in which black and blackened subjects
mobilized their own spatial logics to introduce alternative ways of
occupying the city. Leu unpacks how the spaces of the urban poor
are racialized, and the impact of this process for those who do not
fit the ideal models of urbanity that come to define the national
project. Defiant Geographies puts the mutual production of race and
space at the heart of scholarship on Brazil's urban development and
understands urban reform as a monumental act of forgetting the
country's racial past.
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