Abstract:Central Americans of African descent are in the margins on the histories of transmigrations and political movements in the isthmus and their diasporas. The absence of Black Central Americans in Latinx Studies and Central American Studies is an epistemological violence inherited from Latin American mestizaje. The insurgence of Afro-Latinx Studies is an intellectual and political response to the erasure and negation of Black people and Blackness in the field of Latinx Studies. In this essay, I map out the political urgency to call for a refashioning of Afrolatinidad that dismantles the dangerous allure of ethno-racial nationalism (i.e., Afro-[insert nation-state]) and mappability of Blackness into exclusionary geographies of Spanish-speaking Americas (i.e., “you must be Dominican, because you don’t look Guatemalan”). Drawing on oral history interviews, visual cultures, and social media analysis, I demonstrate how transgenerational Garifuna New Yorkers of Central American descent histories and politics of self-making, beginning in the late 1950s to the present, highlight their negotiations and contradictions as they perform their multiple subjectivities as Black, Indigenous, and AfroLatinx.

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Garifunizando Ambas Ambas Américas：黑度/土著性/AfroLatinidad 的半球纠缠

摘要：非洲裔中美洲人在地峡及其散居地的轮回和政治运动历史上处于边缘地位。拉丁美洲研究和中美洲研究中黑人中美洲人的缺席是从拉丁美洲混血儿继承而来的认识论暴力。非裔拉丁研究的兴起是对拉丁研究领域中对黑人和黑人的抹杀和否定的一种智力和政治反应。在这篇文章中，我描绘了呼吁重塑 Afrolatinidad 的政治紧迫性，它消除了民族-种族民族主义（即非洲-[插入民族国家]）的危险诱惑，以及将黑人映射到西班牙语的排他性地理区域美洲（即“你一定是多米尼加人，因为你不像危地马拉人”）。