ABSTRACT

The flamboyant performances of Afro-Cuban singer and pan-Latina icon, Celia Cruz, blurred the lines of latinidad and blackness. Where latinidad often ignores blackness beyond its historical contributions to mestizaje, Cruz’s example provides a more complex framework through which to imagine the performative relationship between latinidad, mestizaje, and gendered blackness, especially as it relates to questions of diaspora and belonging for black women. Through close reading, Cruz’s outbursts of ‘¡azúcar!’ (sugar!) underscore the historical contributions of blackness while stretching its everyday possibilities as a black feminist grammar across the diaspora. Understood here as a black diasporic feminist interjection into mainstream Latin music, ¡azúcar! attempts to construct a pleasurable, alternative modernity within and beyond linearity as a repetitive act of black women’s self-insertion.

摘要

非洲裔古巴歌手和泛拉丁裔歌手西莉亚·克鲁兹（Celia Cruz）的华丽表演模糊了拉丁裔和黑人的界限。在拉丁裔经常忽略黑人对梅斯泰杰的历史贡献之外，克鲁兹的例子提供了一个更复杂的框架，通过该框架，人们可以想象拉丁文，梅斯泰杰和有性别的黑人之间的表演关系，尤其是因为它涉及散居和黑人妇女的归属问题。通过仔细阅读，克鲁兹对“¡azúcar！”的爆发 （糖！）强调了黑人的历史贡献，同时将其日常可能性扩展为散居海外的黑人女权主义语法。在这里被理解为对主流拉丁音乐“azúcar”的黑色流放女性主义感叹。试图构建一个愉快的，