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The Afro-Hispanic Reader and Anthology, bilingual in its presentation in both Spanish and English, enables a more fulsome discussion on African Diasporic literature and cultural forms and a wider embrace of cultural production by writers of African ancestry in the Americas, Caribbean and Africa. Invaluable in its connection of African Diaspora Studies; Spanish and Portugese cultural studies; literary criticism and Latin American Literature to Caribbean studies generally, this collection will further enhance the link between African and the Americas, In what is perhaps the first published collection of works by authors of African ancestry in Spanish America and Equitorial Guinea - the only former Spanish colony in Africa - editors Paulette Ramsay and Antonio D. Tillis draw together a critical study of the literary production of this hitherto unrecognized body of scholars

Contents: William L. Johnson III: A Message for Our Sons and Daughters: Remembering Trayvon – Rodney D. Smith: I Cried: My Personal Sentiments About Trayvon Martin's Death and the George Zimmerman Trial – Theodore W. Burgh: Why Did Zimmerman Get Out of His Car? – Quito J. Swan: If We Must Die: Trayvon Martin and the Black Piñata – Yvette Modestin: The Pain Felt by Every Afro-Descendant – Cristina Cabral: Personal Reflections on Race and Blackness From an Academic Afro-Latin Woman – María Zalduondo: Mater Dolorosa: The Bléssed Virgin Wore a Hoodie – Timothy J. Lensmire: A Letter to My Son – Emmanuel Harris II: A Message to My Daughter: Of Trayvon Martin and Young Black Men – Angela Y. Douglas: Questions Arise: The Political, Legal, and Social Implications of the Trayvon Martin Tragedy – Brian Lozenski/Jonel Daphnis: Trayvon, Medicine, and Education in the US: Moving Away From Individualized Analyses of Race – Michelle C. Stevens: Historical PTSD - In the Midst of a Tragedy – Louis L. Woods II: Killing for Inclusion: Racial Violence and Assimilation Into the Whiteness Gang – Dennis B. Rogers: Reflections on the Diversity of Thought in Black America on the Trayvon Martin Case – Deborah A. Brunson: «How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?» Reflections Upon Responses of Trayvon Martin's Parents to the George Zimmerman Trial – Todd Steven Burroughs: Disposable Images of Our HipHoprisy: Trayvon Martin Stares at Emmett Till – Glen Anthony Harris: How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Reflections on the Trayvon Martin Case and the American Idea – Antonio D. Tillis: The Black Male Defiled: Whose Fault Is It? Critical Historical Analysis on Black Male Subjecthood.