MACMILLAN Afro-Latin@s in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism in the Americas (Afro-Latin@ Diasporas)

Through a collection of theoretically engaging and empirically grounded texts, this book examines African-descended populations in Latin America and Afro-Latin@s in the United States in order to explore questions of black identity and representation, transnationalism, and diaspora in the Americas. Review    Review      From the Back Cover  This book considers how ideas about blackness travel across the Americas via migration, and media, cultural, and political exchanges. It examines African-descended populations in Latin America and Afro-Latin@s in the United States in order to explore questions of black identity and representation, transnationalism, and diaspora. Afro-Latin@s in Movement explores diverse topics―from popular music to sports to political organizing―to consider the ways that blackness is imagined, embodied, and understood across the Americas.    About the Author Petra R. Rivera-Rideau is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Virginia Tech, USA and author of Remixing Reggaetón: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico.  Jennifer A. Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and a Faculty Fellow in the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA.  Tianna S. Paschel is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA and author of Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil.