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Brings together scholars, thinkers, artists, and community leaders to question hegemonic notions of Blackness in Puerto Rico and throughout its diaspora.
Black Puerto Ricans have always been central, not peripheral, to Puerto Rican life and culture. Black Puerto Rican Studies puts forth dynamic ways of reading, writing, and researching Blackness in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. With essays and interviews spanning ecology, music, architecture, literature, reproductive health, art history, and media production, this volume interrogates national conceptions of Blackness that seek to reduce it to folklore or an ancestral past. In underscoring the interdisciplinarity of the field, Black Puerto Rican Studies celebrates a living lineage of thought, resistance, creativity, stewardship, experimentation, and vision.
"A sound and very well-researched study of critical race theory and cultural studies that provides a groundbreaking theoretical and bibliographical tool for researchers of the discipline. It incorporates well-established voices of a diverse group of scholars and their perspectives on Afro Puerto Rican studies." — Mayra Santos-Febres, Afro Diasporic and Race Studies Research Center and Virtual Archive (Centro PRAFRO), University of Puerto Rico
"A fascinating collection of material that highlights a wide range of scholarly, artistic, literary, and activist work in the field of Black Puerto Rican studies. It is this collaboration, especially the interviews with cultural workers and activists and the auto-ethnographies by artists and scholars, that makes it a unique contribution. These pieces are incredibly useful, in conjunction with one another and individually, in orienting a reader to what is happening in Black Puerto Rican studies from the perspective of various fields and artistic modes, especially visual and performance art." — Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, author of Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean, 1850–1902
Chayanne Marcano is a writer and researcher born and raised in the Bronx, New York. Vanessa K. Valdés is an independent writer, scholar, speaker, and curator. Her books include Let Spirit Speak! Cultural Journeys Through the African Diaspora; Oshun's Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas; Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg; and Racialized Visions: Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean, all published by SUNY Press.