Dr. Jaira J. Harrington is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, USA. She has published in Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Race & Class, and Revista Relicário Uberlândia. A seasoned educator on gender, race, labor, activism, and Black communities in Latin America, she teaches courses on Black diaspora, global Black feminisms, and the politics of Blackness in Latin America. She is currently completing her first book, Inscribed and Erased: Domestic Workers’ Rights in Brazil. Dr. Angie Edell Campos Lazo is a Lecturer of Social Work at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Perú and an Afro-Peruvian activist. Her dissertation, Black Bodies in Professional Workspaces: Professionalization of Afro-Peruvian Women in the City of Lima, examines contemporary racism through the educational and professional experiences of Afro-Peruvian women. Her research centers Afro-Peruvian human rights, Afro-descendant women’s activism, and youth political participation. A recognized scholar-activist and community leader, she has published widely in the Afro-Latin American studies field.

• Chapter 1: Introduction Black and Afro-descendant Women on the Move.- Chapter 2: Afro-Carioca Freedom Riders: The Water-shed Meeting of Twenty-Seven Women Traveling to Bertioga, RJ.- Chapter 3: Pressing Matters: Challenges Faced by Black Women Journal-ists During the Final Years of Brazil’s Dictatorship.- Chapter 4: Maria da Graça Oliveira: From Black Leader to Patroness of the Graça do Aché Black Culture Memory Center in the city of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais (Action and Legacy).- Chapter 5: Crossing Borders, Crossing Paths: Two Afro-Colombian Wom-en’s Journey to Canada and the United States.- Chapter 6: Fighting Faith: Afro-Catholicism, Black Women in the Pastoral of the Negro and Political Action in Joinville, SC.- Chapter 7: Marooning Our Feminisms: Talking About Black Feminism from the Community.- Chapter 8: Black Women Turning Words into Action: Training, Writing, and Resistance.- Chapter 9: An Afro-Peruvian Academic Activist: Auto-Ethnographic Dia-logue of the Impact of Afro-Peruvian Organizations on the Subjectivities of Afro-Peruvian Women.- Chapter 10: Methodology in Motion: Black Women Scholars and Transna-tional Field Research.- Chapter 11: Conclusion: Black and Afro-descendant Women Moving Forward.

Dr. Jaira J. Harrington is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, USA. She has published in Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Race & Class, and Revista Relicário Uberlândia. A seasoned educator on gender, race, labor, activism, and Black communities in Latin America, she teaches courses on Black diaspora, global Black feminisms, and the politics of Blackness in Latin America. She is currently completing her first book, Inscribed and Erased: Domestic Workers’ Rights in Brazil. Dr. Angie Edell Campos Lazo is a Lecturer of Social Work at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Perú and an Afro-Peruvian activist. Her dissertation, Black Bodies in Professional Workspaces: Professionalization of Afro-Peruvian Women in the City of Lima, examines contemporary racism through the educational and professional experiences of Afro-Peruvian women. Her research centers Afro-Peruvian human rights, Afro-descendant women’s activism, and youth political participation. A recognized scholar-activist and community leader, she has published widely in the Afro-Latin American studies field.

• Chapter 1: Introduction Black and Afro-descendant Women on the Move.- Chapter 2: Afro-Carioca Freedom Riders: The Water-shed Meeting of Twenty-Seven Women Traveling to Bertioga, RJ.- Chapter 3: Pressing Matters: Challenges Faced by Black Women Journal-ists During the Final Years of Brazil’s Dictatorship.- Chapter 4: Maria da Graça Oliveira: From Black Leader to Patroness of the Graça do Aché Black Culture Memory Center in the city of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais (Action and Legacy).- Chapter 5: Crossing Borders, Crossing Paths: Two Afro-Colombian Wom-en’s Journey to Canada and the United States.- Chapter 6: Fighting Faith: Afro-Catholicism, Black Women in the Pastoral of the Negro and Political Action in Joinville, SC.- Chapter 7: Marooning Our Feminisms: Talking About Black Feminism from the Community.- Chapter 8: Black Women Turning Words into Action: Training, Writing, and Resistance.- Chapter 9: An Afro-Peruvian Academic Activist: Auto-Ethnographic Dia-logue of the Impact of Afro-Peruvian Organizations on the Subjectivities of Afro-Peruvian Women.- Chapter 10: Methodology in Motion: Black Women Scholars and Transna-tional Field Research.- Chapter 11: Conclusion: Black and Afro-descendant Women Moving Forward.

Dr. Jaira J. Harrington is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, USA. She has published in Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Race & Class, and Revista Relicário Uberlândia. A seasoned educator on gender, race, labor, activism, and Black communities in Latin America, she teaches courses on Black diaspora, global Black feminisms, and the politics of Blackness in Latin America. She is currently completing her first book, Inscribed and Erased: Domestic Workers’ Rights in Brazil. Dr. Angie Edell Campos Lazo is a Lecturer of Social Work at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Perú and an Afro-Peruvian activist. Her dissertation, Black Bodies in Professional Workspaces: Professionalization of Afro-Peruvian Women in the City of Lima, examines contemporary racism through the educational and professional experiences of Afro-Peruvian women. Her research centers Afro-Peruvian human rights, Afro-descendant women’s activism, and youth political participation. A recognized scholar-activist and community leader, she has published widely in the Afro-Latin American studies field.

• Chapter 1: Introduction Black and Afro-descendant Women on the Move.- Chapter 2: Afro-Carioca Freedom Riders: The Water-shed Meeting of Twenty-Seven Women Traveling to Bertioga, RJ.- Chapter 3: Pressing Matters: Challenges Faced by Black Women Journal-ists During the Final Years of Brazil’s Dictatorship.- Chapter 4: Maria da Graça Oliveira: From Black Leader to Patroness of the Graça do Aché Black Culture Memory Center in the city of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais (Action and Legacy).- Chapter 5: Crossing Borders, Crossing Paths: Two Afro-Colombian Wom-en’s Journey to Canada and the United States.- Chapter 6: Fighting Faith: Afro-Catholicism, Black Women in the Pastoral of the Negro and Political Action in Joinville, SC.- Chapter 7: Marooning Our Feminisms: Talking About Black Feminism from the Community.- Chapter 8: Black Women Turning Words into Action: Training, Writing, and Resistance.- Chapter 9: An Afro-Peruvian Academic Activist: Auto-Ethnographic Dia-logue of the Impact of Afro-Peruvian Organizations on the Subjectivities of Afro-Peruvian Women.- Chapter 10: Methodology in Motion: Black Women Scholars and Transna-tional Field Research.- Chapter 11: Conclusion: Black and Afro-descendant Women Moving Forward.