1st Edition

The Afro-Descendant Woman in Latin American Diasporic Visual Art

By Rosita Scerbo Copyright 2025
228 Pages 5 Color & 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 5 Color & 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 5 Color & 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

By studying multiple cultural expressions of Blackness throughout different regions of the Americas, the chapters of this book consider the relationship that social and historical processes such as sovereignty and colonialism have on cultural productions made by and about Black Latin American women. Rosita Scerbo analyzes a range of power dynamics as represented in different artistic media... Read more

Introduction: Tracing a History of Invisibility and Cultural Amnesia  PART I: Intersecting Race and Gender in Afro-descendant Paintings and Murals  1. Reimagining Mythical Spaces: Spiritualized Afro-feminism and Decolonial Aesthetics in the Visual Expression of Afro-Cuban Painter Harmonia Rosales  2. Repainting Black Queer HERstory: Lesbian Femininity and Inclusive Practices in the Afro-Dominican Diasporic Art of Tiffany Alfonseca  3. Visualizing Collective Identity: Daily Life and Black Femininity in the Artistry of Afro-Brazilian Painter Maria Auxiliadora da Silva  4. Let Equity Bloom: A Floral, Intersectional, and Multicultural Feminist Reading of the Mural the Roots by Afro-Mexican Contemporary Artist Cristina Martinez  PART II: Discovering Agency in Black Aesthetic Expressions: Afro-descendant Women’s Authorship and Leadership in Photographic Projects and Performance  5. Captured in Frames: Exploring the Silenced Story of Afro-Mexican Women through the Lenses of Koral Carballo and Mara Sánchez Renero  6. Framing Black Girlhood in Puerto Rico: The Afro-descendant Female Body in Adriana Parrilla’s Photographic Projects  7. Afro-Colombian Women as Alternative Historical Archives: Negotiating Forms of Racialization and Invisibility in the Graphic Testimonies of Liliana Angulo Cortés  8. Afro-Cuban Diasporic Femininity: A Visual Chronicle of the Trauma of Separation and the Legacy of Enslavement in Susana Pilar's Artistry  Epilogue

Biography

Rosita Scerbo is Assistant Professor of Afro-Latinx Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University.