The Afro-Descendant Woman in Latin American Diasporic Visual Art

Introduction: Tracing a History of Invisibility and Cultural Amnesia PART I: Intersecting Race and Gender in Afro-descendant Paintings and Murals 1. Reimagining Mythical Spaces: Spiritualized Afro-feminism and Decolonial Aesthetics in the Visual Expression of Afro-Cuban Painter Harmonia Rosales 2. Repainting Black Queer HERstory: Lesbian Femininity and Inclusive Practices in the Afro-Dominican Diasporic Art of Tiffany Alfonseca 3. Visualizing Collective Identity: Daily Life and Black Femininity in the Artistry of Afro-Brazilian Painter Maria Auxiliadora da Silva 4. Let Equity Bloom: A Floral, Intersectional, and Multicultural Feminist Reading of the Mural the Roots by Afro-Mexican Contemporary Artist Cristina Martinez PART II: Discovering Agency in Black Aesthetic Expressions: Afro-descendant Women's Authorship and Leadership in Photographic Projects and Performance 5. Captured in Frames: Exploring the Silenced Story of Afro-Mexican Women through the Lenses of Koral Carballo and Mara Sanchez Renero 6. Framing Black Girlhood in Puerto Rico: The Afro-descendant Female Body in Adriana Parrilla's Photographic Projects 7. Afro-Colombian Women as Alternative Historical Archives: Negotiating Forms of Racialization and Invisibility in the Graphic Testimonies of Liliana Angulo Cortes 8. Afro-Cuban Diasporic Femininity: A Visual Chronicle of the Trauma of Separation and the Legacy of Enslavement in Susana Pilar's Artistry Epilogue