Edited by Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, Jennifer A. Jones, and Tianna S. Paschel AFRO-LATIN@S IN M O V E M E N T M O V E M E N T Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism in the Americas Afro-Latin@ Diasporas The Afro-Latin@ Diasporas Book Series publishes scholarly and cre- ative writing on the African diasporic experience in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. The Series includes books which address all aspects of Afro-Latin@ life and cultural expression throughout the hemisphere, with a strong focus on Afro-Latin@s in the United States. This Series is the fi rst-of-its-kind to combine such a broad range of topics, including religion, race, transnational identity, history, literature, music and the arts, social and cultural theory, biography, class and economic relations, gender, sexuality, sociology, politics, and migration. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14759 Petra R . Rivera-Rideau • Jennifer A. Jones • Tianna S . P aschel Editors Afro-Latin@s in Movement Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism in the Americas Editors Petra R. Rivera-Rideau Tianna S. Paschel Wellesley College University of California Berkeley Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA Berkeley, California, USA Jennifer A. Jones University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana , USA Afro-Latin@ Diasporas ISBN 978-1-137-60320-3 ISBN 978-1-137-59874-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59874-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016907723 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2 016 This work is subject to copyright. 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We wish to extend our warmest thanks to the Inter-University Program for Latino Research and the many academic units at the University of Notre Dame for their support of this volume. Specifi cally, we would like to thank Tom McNeil and the Institute for Latino Studies for their sponsorship, as well as the Anderson Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Jose E. Fernandez Hispanic Caribbean Initiative, the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, the Department of Africana Studies, the Department of American Studies, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of History, and Multicultural Student Programs and Services for their support. Special thanks must be given to Timothy Matovina, Idalia Maldonado, and Maribel Rodriguez, for all their assis- tance with this project. We must also thank the Center for the Study of Politics, Culture and Society at the University of Chicago for its support of the book conference that made this volume possible. In addition, we would like to thank our research assistants for their help: Jaime Sánchez at the University of Chicago and Jessica Herling, Talitha Rose, and Sofi a Ruhkin at Virginia Tech. Richard Caraballo and Natalia Linares were instrumental in making possible the interview with Los Rakas. At Palgrave Macmillan, we would like to thank Shaun Vigil and Erica Buchman for their guidance and support of this project. A special vii viii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS acknowledgment must be given to Alejandro de la Fuente, Nena Torres, Ramona Hernandez, and Timothy Matovina, who supported this project from the very beginning. Finally, we would like to thank our families for their constant support. C ONTENTS 1 Introduction: Theorizing Afrolatinidades 1 Petra R. Rivera-Rideau , Jennifer A. Jones , and Tianna S. Paschel Part 1 I magining Afrolatinidades 3 1 Jossianna Arroyo 2 The Expediency of Blackness: Racial Logics and Danzón in the Port of Veracruz, Mexico 3 5 Hettie Malcomson 3 “Ni de aquí, ni de allá”: Garífuna Subjectivities and the Politics of Diasporic Belonging 6 1 Paul Joseph López Oro 4 The Death of “la Reina de la Salsa:” Celia Cruz and the Mythifi cation of the Black Woman 85 Monika Gosin 5 “Oye, Qué Bien Juegan Los Negros, ¿No?”: Blaxicans and Basketball in Mexico 1 09 Walter Thompson-Hernández ix