Contents

pp v-vi

Notes on Contributors

pp vii-x

Introduction The Poetics of Race and the “Color Line”

pp 1-14

Part I - Prisms of Race: Caribbean and Brazilian Encounters

pp 15-16

Chapter 1 - Blackness, Postslavery, and What Never Ceases Not to Write Itself

pp 17-34

Chapter 2 - Etched in Sugar, Soil, Metal and Blood: The Plantationocene and the Afterlives of Racialized Plantation in Contemporary Cuban Art

pp 35-60

Chapter 3 - Policies of Repair in “Black” Female Poetics: Nancy Morejón and Astrid Roemer

pp 61-74

Chapter 4 - The Rise of the Black Hero: Heroic Imagination and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

pp 75-96

Part II - Coloring Otherness in Mexico

pp 97-98

Chapter 5 - Phantasms of Our Deluded Eyes: Race in the Era of Cinematic Movement

pp 99-110

Chapter 6 - Marking Race and Class Privilege in Contemporary Mexican Cinema

pp 111-128

Chapter 7 - The Limits of Nihonjinron: Issei Immigrants’ Literary Representation of Japaneseness in Mexico

pp 129-148

Part III - Indigenous Subjects: Representation and Resistance

pp 149-150

Chapter 8 - What Indigenous Literatures Tell Us about Race

pp 151-168

Chapter 9 - Yuyachkani’s Andinismo: Performing (toward) a Poetics of Race

pp 169-184

Chapter 10 - Antiracist Spatial Narratives in Daniel Munduruku’s Crônicas De São Paulo: Indigenous Place-Names and Migration in the Paulista Capital City

pp 185-200

Index

pp 201-203