Chayanne Marcano is a writer and researcher born and raised in the Bronx, New York. Vanessa K. Valdés is an independent writer, scholar, speaker, and curator. Her books include Let Spirit Speak! Cultural Journeys Through the African Diaspora; Oshun's Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas; Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg; and Racialized Visions: Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean, all published by SUNY Press.

"A sound and very well-researched study of critical race theory and cultural studies that provides a groundbreaking theoretical and bibliographical tool for researchers of the discipline. It incorporates well-established voices of a diverse group of scholars and their perspectives on Afro Puerto Rican studies." — Mayra Santos-Febres, Afro Diasporic and Race Studies Research Center and Virtual Archive (Centro PRAFRO), University of Puerto Rico"A fascinating collection of material that highlights a wide range of scholarly, artistic, literary, and activist work in the field of Black Puerto Rican studies. It is this collaboration, especially the interviews with cultural workers and activists and the auto-ethnographies by artists and scholars, that makes it a unique contribution. These pieces are incredibly useful, in conjunction with one another and individually, in orienting a reader to what is happening in Black Puerto Rican studies from the perspective of various fields and artistic modes, especially visual and performance art." — Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, author of Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean, 1850–1902

• AcknowledgmentsIntroducing Black Puerto Rican StudiesChayanne Marcano and Vanessa K. ValdésPart One: Theoretical Interventions1: Rendering Our Black Puerto Rican HistoryVanessa K. Valdés2: Limits and Possibilities of Theorizing Blackness in Puerto Rican Popular MusicPetra Rivera-Rideau3: Everyday Racisms, Rabia/Rage Epistemologies, and Being Black in Urban Latin(@) AmericaZaire Z. Dinzey-Flores4: NEGRAS: AFROsororidades y sueñosBárbara I. Abadía-Rexach y Carmen Margarita Sánchez De León5: NEGRAS: AFROsororidades y sueños (English)Bárbara I. Abadía-Rexach and Carmen Margarita Sánchez De LeónPart Two: Artistic Disruptions6: On ParéntesisChayanne Marcano7: Art Against the Margins: Introducing 20th Century Afro-Puerto Rican Aesthetics Milagros Denis-Rosario8: Making Puerto Rico NegrxChayanne Marcano, María Elena Ortiz, and Marina Reyes Franco9: An Artist's StatementArtist Marcia X10: Mayra Santos-Febres and Black Girl Futures in Sirena SelenaWendyliz MartinezPart Three: Community and Vernacular Practices11: To Be Free, To Free Each OtherChayanne Marcano, Paloma Del Mar Hernandez Quiñones, Shaina Simmons, and Yamilin Rivera- Santiago12: Living Proof: Visualizing Black Puerto Ricanschristopher colón13: The Mangrove as Life: Why Afro-Puerto Rican Ecosystems MatterHilda Lloréns and Carlos G. García-Quijano14: The Soil Cries OutChayanne Marcano and Rose Mary Florián RodríguezPart Four: Further ReadingA Select Bibliography of Black Puerto Rican Studies 1970-presentVanessa K. Valdés and Chayanne MarcanoList of Contributors

Chayanne Marcano is a writer and researcher born and raised in the Bronx, New York. Vanessa K. Valdés is an independent writer, scholar, speaker, and curator. Her books include Let Spirit Speak! Cultural Journeys Through the African Diaspora; Oshun's Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas; Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg; and Racialized Visions: Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean, all published by SUNY Press.

"A sound and very well-researched study of critical race theory and cultural studies that provides a groundbreaking theoretical and bibliographical tool for researchers of the discipline. It incorporates well-established voices of a diverse group of scholars and their perspectives on Afro Puerto Rican studies." — Mayra Santos-Febres, Afro Diasporic and Race Studies Research Center and Virtual Archive (Centro PRAFRO), University of Puerto Rico"A fascinating collection of material that highlights a wide range of scholarly, artistic, literary, and activist work in the field of Black Puerto Rican studies. It is this collaboration, especially the interviews with cultural workers and activists and the auto-ethnographies by artists and scholars, that makes it a unique contribution. These pieces are incredibly useful, in conjunction with one another and individually, in orienting a reader to what is happening in Black Puerto Rican studies from the perspective of various fields and artistic modes, especially visual and performance art." — Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, author of Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean, 1850–1902

• AcknowledgmentsIntroducing Black Puerto Rican StudiesChayanne Marcano and Vanessa K. ValdésPart One: Theoretical Interventions1: Rendering Our Black Puerto Rican HistoryVanessa K. Valdés2: Limits and Possibilities of Theorizing Blackness in Puerto Rican Popular MusicPetra Rivera-Rideau3: Everyday Racisms, Rabia/Rage Epistemologies, and Being Black in Urban Latin(@) AmericaZaire Z. Dinzey-Flores4: NEGRAS: AFROsororidades y sueñosBárbara I. Abadía-Rexach y Carmen Margarita Sánchez De León5: NEGRAS: AFROsororidades y sueños (English)Bárbara I. Abadía-Rexach and Carmen Margarita Sánchez De LeónPart Two: Artistic Disruptions6: On ParéntesisChayanne Marcano7: Art Against the Margins: Introducing 20th Century Afro-Puerto Rican Aesthetics Milagros Denis-Rosario8: Making Puerto Rico NegrxChayanne Marcano, María Elena Ortiz, and Marina Reyes Franco9: An Artist's StatementArtist Marcia X10: Mayra Santos-Febres and Black Girl Futures in Sirena SelenaWendyliz MartinezPart Three: Community and Vernacular Practices11: To Be Free, To Free Each OtherChayanne Marcano, Paloma Del Mar Hernandez Quiñones, Shaina Simmons, and Yamilin Rivera- Santiago12: Living Proof: Visualizing Black Puerto Ricanschristopher colón13: The Mangrove as Life: Why Afro-Puerto Rican Ecosystems MatterHilda Lloréns and Carlos G. García-Quijano14: The Soil Cries OutChayanne Marcano and Rose Mary Florián RodríguezPart Four: Further ReadingA Select Bibliography of Black Puerto Rican Studies 1970-presentVanessa K. Valdés and Chayanne MarcanoList of Contributors