Reflections from Afro-Diasporic Feminisms Part II: Black Feminist Visual Arts languages in Latin America

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

With several panels engaging in a Pan-American look at “Nuestra América/Our America” from the perspective of Black women, we ask what is Pan-Americanism without the contributions of Black women to Latin America(n Studies)? Massachussetts, where Black women such as Maria Stewart and Latinxs from labor unions advocated for emancipation and people of colors’ rights; where Maryse Condé's fictional character Tituba lived before her return to Barbados as a maroon rebel…is an apt location to discuss justice and inclusion in Latin America(n Studies) and activism, long after slavery was “abolished” without Black women’s emancipation being established. Let us bring to the forefront the guerreras that have laid the base for collective and individual rights, from slaveships, to Haiti, to Santiago de Cuba, to Minas Gerais, to Cali, to Massachussets...

This multilingual panel and discussion focuses on creative work and research by Afro-Latinx and Afro-Latin American Women Artists and Art Historians. We seek for an open conversation towards Intersectionality, Race, Gender, Class, Womanism, Black feminism and Afro-diasporic feminism as reflected by contemporary black female artists such as Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo, Amparo Gómez, Magdalena Campos Pons, Gertrudis Rivalta, Eneida Sanches, Carmenza Banguera and Vladimir Cybil Charlier, among others. Key questions to address in this panel are: What kind of visual language Black women artists from Latin America create to challenge traditional, colonial and oppressive ideas of black womanhood? How are these creations being recorded, systematized and studied within the Art History field?

Sub Track

• Afro-Latin/Indigenous Peoples

Session Organizer

• Angelica M Sanchez Barona, Harvard University

Chair

• Paulina Marquez

Discussant

• Rosana Paulino

Individual Presentations

• Voodoo Intellectuals and Female Piracy in the Caribbean - Vladimir Cybil Charlier

• Cuando te miro me veo, cuando me miras, ¿te ves? Violencias oficiales anónimas que hacen historia - Amparo Gómez Acosta

• Afro Hair empowerment in Cuban Society - Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo, Independent Scholar