1st Edition
Unwritten Afro-Iberian Memories and Histories Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Portugal and Spain
Introduction – Unwritten Afro-Iberian memories and histories: Race, ethnicity and
gender in Portugal and Spain
Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré
1. Shifting representations, ambiguous bodies: African colonial
subjects in nineteenth-century Spain
Diana Arbaiza
2. African women in Iberia. The Fernandino elite in Barcelona
Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré
3. African women’s trajectories and the Casa dos Estudantes do Império
Jessica Falconi
4. Black extras and actors in Francoist cinema
Mar Garcia
5. Batida and the politics of sonic agency in Afro-Lisboa
Otávio Raposo and Carlos Garrido Castellano
6. Leandro Mbomio, the “Black Picasso”: Spanish state propaganda, Blackness, and neocolonialism in Equatorial Guinea
Elisa Rizo
7. Racial rhetoric in black and white: situational whiteness in Francoist Spanish Guinea through Misión blanca
JM. Persánch
8. Precarious lives, invisible deaths. A history of community funeral management among Moroccans in Catalonia
Jordi Moreras
9. Induced vulnerability: the consequences of racialization for African women in an emergency shelter in Catalonia (Spain)
Jorge Grau-Rebollo, Lourdes García-Tugas and Beatriz García-García
Biography
Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré is Senior Researcher at the IMF-CSIC. Since 1999, she has participated in 21 research programmes, 8 directed by her. She is the author and/or co-editor of 18 books (Bellaterra, Peter Lang, Lit Verlag, Brill) and 94 book chapters and articles. Her last R+D Projects are Afro-Iberia and Black Spain.
