Kaysha Corinealdi’s Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making within the Twentieth Century might be printed by Duke College Press in September 2022.
Description: In Panama in Black, Kaysha Corinealdi traces the multigenerational activism of Afro-Caribbean Panamanians as they cast diasporic communities in Panama and the USA all through the 20 th century. Drawing on a wealthy array of sources together with speeches, yearbooks, images, authorities studies, radio broadcasts, newspaper editorials, and oral histories, Corinealdi presents the Panamanian isthmus as an important web site within the making of an Afro-diasporic world that linked cities and cities like Colón, Kingston, Panamá Metropolis, Brooklyn, Bridgetown, and La Boca. In Panama, Afro-Caribbean Panamanians created a diasporic worldview of the Caribbean that privileged the potential of Black innovation.
Corinealdi maps this innovation by analyzing the longest-running Black newspaper in Central America, the rise of civic associations created to counter insurance policies that stripped Afro-Caribbean Panamanians of citizenship, the creation of scholarship-granting organizations that supported the training of Black college students, and the emergence of nationwide conferences and organizations that linked anti-imperialism and Black liberation. By exhibiting how Afro-Caribbean Panamanians used these strategies to navigate anti-Blackness, xenophobia, and white supremacy, Corinealdi presents a brand new mode of understanding activism, neighborhood, and diaspora formation.
“Kaysha Corinealdi’s in-depth analysis in Panamanian and US archives, each private and non-private, is unparalleled by any earlier scholar. Placing Afro-Caribbean Panamanian views on the middle of the story, Corinealdi helps the reader expertise abstractions like race, empire, and nation as they have been lived: by vivid human encounters. Panama in Black might be a type of uncommon cherished tutorial books and might be learn eagerly by college students and students of Caribbean research, Afro-diasporic research, and Latin American historical past alike.” — Lara Putnam, creator of Radical Strikes: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race within the Jazz Age
Kaysha Corinealdi is Assistant Professor of World Historical past at Emerson School.
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