Stories of Latin American Women of African Heritage

Prologue: Black Women in Cuban Literature of Centuries Past

Introduction

Argentina

1. White Mothers and Wet Nurses

2. My Beautiful Black Sisters

Brazil

3. Watercolor of Brazil: Shades of a Society - From Pigmentocracy towards Democracy

4. Benedita da Silva: From the Favelas of Rio to the Halls of Power

5. The Black Voice of a Favelada: Race, Gender and Nation in the Testimony of Carolina Maria de Jesus

Colombia

6. Afro-Colombian Women's Music: La Negra Grande de Colombia and Toto la Momposina

7. Lolia Pomare Myles: A Bridge Between the Old World and the New

8. Piedad Cordoba: Between Controversy and Conviction

9. The Voice of Edelma Zapata Perez - Afro-Colombian Poet Interview

10. Afro-Colombian Women Voices from the Margin: Mary Grueso Romero and Maria Elcina Valencia Cordoba

11. Maria Teresa Ramirez and Maria de los Angeles Popov: Heiresses of Yemaya and Chango

12. Goyo: Driving Chocoano Rap

13. Life Stories of Women from Palenque in Colombia

Costa Rica

14. Emphatically Black. Reading the Poetry of Costa Rica's Shirley Campbell Barr

Cuba

15. An Island for Sara Gomez

16. Hilda Oates: An Afro-descendant Cuban Actress

17. Omara Portuondo: The Diva of Cuban Music from Las D'Aida to Buena Vista Social Club

18. The Poetic World of Nancy Morejon

19. Raise Your Voice, Break the Margins: Rap and Female Discourse

20. Celia Cruz: Live to Sing

Ecuador

21. Luz Argentina Chiriboga, "Esmeraldas' Star"

Honduras

22. Ritual Practices of Globalization: Garifuna Women

Mexico

23. Luz Maria Martinez Montiel: "Ambassador of the African Renaissance in Latin America and Mexico"

Peru

24. Fortitude and Charisma: Victoria Santa Cruz

25. Woman, Mother, and Leader: Maria Elena Moyano and the Courage of Commitment

Puerto Rico

26. Ruth Fernandez: The Soul of Puerto Rico in Song

27. Breaking Paradigms and Creating New Archetypes: The Black Character in the Works of Mayra Santos Febres

28. Queeriquena Futures and Black Liberation in the Work of Yolanda Arroyo

Dominican Republic

29. Salome Urena de Henriquez (1850-1897)

30. The Triple Marginality: Florinda Soriano (Mama Tingo)

31. Sherezada Vicioso and the Construction of Her Own Caribbean

Uruguay

32. Stars in the South: Martha Gularte, Lagrima Rios and Rosa Luna

33. Alba Roballo: "Nevertheless, I am alive"

34. An Interview with Cristina Rodriguez Cabral: The Continuous Process of Identity and Its Poetic Projection

Venezuela

35. Carmen Verde Arocha: "I believe being a poet is a destiny"