Black Women's Politics in the Americas: Emotions/Intellectual, Motherhood and Struggles for Territory.

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This panel explores the different ways that politics and resistance is embodied by Black women from a hemispheric perspective of the Americas. We will put forth an understanding of politics that situates the embodied and everyday practices of resistance against neo-colonialist national narratives, domestic and State forms of violence, as sources of political theory and intellectual history. We understand politics beyond its traditional definition, challenging the division between the intellectual and the embodied. Through the cases of Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia and the U.S. we will discuss different voices and histories of black women’s resistance.

Sub Track

• Afro-Latin/Indigenous Peoples

Session Organizer

• Meztli Y Rodriguez Aguilera, University of Texas at Austin

Chair

• Prisca Gayles, University of Texas/Williams College

Individual Presentations

• Mapping the Body and Territory: Black women and Inter-ethnic Alliances for the Politics of Life - Meztli Y Rodriguez Aguilera, University of Texas at Austin

• Theorizing Collective Emotional Energy in Racialized Social Movements - Prisca Gayles, University of Texas/Williams College