In the Wake of the Exodus: Afro-Indigenous ancestral praxis of territoriality in the Americas

• In Event: Ancestral Lands and Sacred Spaces

Abstract

Ancestral Land and continuous displacement throughout Central America are memories of exile embedded in women's flesh as embodied archives of ancestral praxis. Blackness and mobility are underrepresented in the discourse of migration policies, citizenship, and personhood through the various forms of migration from their new homelands in Central America. I use Deborah Thomas's form of witnessing and Christina Sharpe's wake work to centrally ask: If the transnational community created between the community in New York and Central America is a reaction to anti-black policies, what kind of gendered labor sustains this bridge?

Presenter

• Daisy E Guzman, NYU University