Research
Book Project
My book project traces forms of critical and spiritual resistance by women of the African Diaspora to demonstrate possibilities for decolonial being, knowing, and loving in the contemporary Caribbean and the US.
Through the reading of works by the Puerto Ricans Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro and Mayra Santos Febres, the Haitian Edwidge Danticat, the Dominican Ana-Mauríne Lara, the Cuban Hip-Hop group las Krudas CUBENSI, and diasporic slam poets María Teresa Fernández, Denice Frohman, and Elizabeth Acevedo, I identify a line of thought that deploys spiritual practices to enact painful personal, cultural and historical stories that push against the limits of European and US American imperial/colonial projects. Ultimately, it traces a sacred memory that links historical continuities between contemporary labor migrations and colonial systems of enslavement. |
Selected Publications
“El ni'e: Inhabiting Love, Bliss, and Joy, a conversation with Josefina Baez," Small Axe Salon 28.2 (2018).
“Sueños utópicos: Espacios, geografías y comunidades al margen de la sociedad española en Elmapa de la espera,” Romance Notes 57.3 (2017). “Lorgia García-Peña. The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction. Duke UP, Durham, 2016 (274 Pp.).” Voces del Caribe 9.1 (2017): 456-459. |