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This essay has three goals: First, to illustrate the epistemological interventions of Black Brazilian queer artivists in theories of Black liberation through naming and defining their sexual-dissident-subjectivities and the affective modes they engender, such as the feeling of solidão (solitude). Second, to contribute to efforts to decolonize the academy in the Americas more broadly, by pointing to the emergent Black queer archives and repertoires that Black queer artivists are intentionally producing outside the Brazilian academy. And third, to highlight how, why, and where Black queer theory is being produced in Brazil, to avoid crediting privileged (in this case, white mestizo) actors within the Brazilian academy for the intellectual production of Black queer theorists who generally do not have access to the transnational academic sphere.

A study of the symbols employed by the Cuban underground hip-hop movement based on ethnographic data gathered in Havana from 1998 to 2006 situates the movement as one of a number of transnational Afro-diasporic cultural movements for social equality. Afro-Cuban young people's commitment to socially conscious hip-hop links them to a larger history of African and Afro-diasporic activism in the arts. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright holder.]

A study of the symbols employed by the Cuban underground hip-hop movement based on ethnographic data gathered in Havana from 1998 to 2006 situates the movement as one of a number of transnational Afro-diasporic cultural movements for social equality. Afro-Cuban young people's commitment to socially conscious hip-hop links them to a larger history of African and Afro-diasporic activism in the arts. Un estudio de los símbolos utilizados por el movimiento underground del hip-hop cubano, basado en datos recolectados en la Habana de 1998 a 2006, sitúa dicho movimiento dentro de una serie de corrientes culturales que, producidas por la diáspora africana transnacional, se desenvuelven a favor de la igualdad social. La entrega de la juventud afrocubana a la conciencia social del hip-hop se articula a una historia más amplia de activismo africano y la diaspora africana en las artes.

The Cuban revolutionary state is known for its successes in giving women greater financial independence and more control over their reproductive capabilities. In recent years, the Cuban state has received international attention for its support of Cuba's LGBT population, a population it once targeted for social exclusion. Despite increased rights for Afro-Cubans, women, and Cuba's LGBT community, lesbians, especially black lesbians, continue to be one of Cuba's most socially marginalized populations. I argue that there are several intersecting factors that produce this contradiction. These factors are culturally based discourses concerning race, gender, sexuality, the limitations of post-revolutionary citizenship discourse to address these forms of social inequality, and finally the economic downturn called the "Special Period." This essay addresses how several women make sense of and navigate these social issues in their everyday lives.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. Black/Queer Rhizomatics -- CHAPTER 2. The Whiter the Bread, the Quicker You're Dead -- CHAPTER 3. Troubling the Waters -- CHAPTER 4. Gender Trouble in Triton -- CHAPTER 5. Reggaetón's Crossings -- CHAPTER 6. I Represent Freedom -- CHAPTER 7. To Transcender Transgender -- CHAPTER 8. Toward A Hemispheric Analysis of Black Lesbian Feminist Activism and Hip Hop Feminism -- CHAPTER 9. The Body Beautiful -- CHAPTER 10. Black Sissy Masculinity and the Politics of Dis-respectability -- CHAPTER 11. Let's Play -- CHAPTER 12. Black Gay (Raw) Sex -- CHAPTER 13. Black Data -- CHAPTER 14. Boystown -- CHAPTER 15. Beyond the Flames -- CHAPTER 16. The Strangeness of Progress and the Uncertainty of Blackness -- CHAPTER 17. Re-membering Audre -- CHAPTER 18. On the Cusp of Deviance -- CHAPTER 19. Something Else to Be -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX