Black Puerto Rican Studies

Brings together scholars, thinkers, artists, and community leaders to question hegemonic notions of Blackness in Puerto Rico and throughout its diaspora. Black Puerto Ricans have always been central, not peripheral, to Puerto Rican life and culture. Black Puerto Rican Studies puts forth dynamic ways of reading, writing, and researching Blackness in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. With essays and interviews spanning ecology, music, architecture, literature, reproductive health, art history, and media production, this volume interrogates national conceptions of Blackness that seek to reduce it to folklore or an ancestral past. In underscoring the interdisciplinarity of the field, Black Puerto Rican Studies celebrates a living lineage of thought, resistance, creativity, stewardship, experimentation, and vision.