Negotiating Gender, Policy and Politics in the Caribbean: Feminist Strategies, Masculinist Resistance and Transformational Possibilities, edited by Gabrielle Jamela Hosein and Jane Parpart

Henry-Lee, Aldrie

doi:10.1080/14616742.2017.1361682

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“…the weight of father figures in the performance of women politicians in Latin America (Skard 2015;Escobar-Lemmon and Taylor-Robinson 2009) and also coincide with analyses of the political trajectory of Black women in the insular Caribbean (Hosein and Parpart 2016). 13 In the Costa Rican case, Epsy Campbell mentions that "the issue of Black identity was always an issue worked on in my house and reaffirmed by, mainly, my dad."…”

Section: A Political Genealogy Of Little's Linksmentioning

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Black Motherhood Politics in Costa Rica: Diasporic Genealogies and Links to the State

Muñoz

2022

Lat. Am. res. rev.

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Black women who seek and win elected office are changing the political landscape in the Americas. In Latin America, this shift became widely recognized when Epsy Campbell Barr became the first Black woman vice president in Costa Rica in 2018. Her election builds on the work of three generations of women whose engagement in formal politics is rooted in their intertwined identities as Black, women, and of West Indian descent. By recovering a racialized, gendered, and ethnicized lineage of community activism, relationships, and networking—which I call “Little’s links” to honor the legacy of the writer and activist Eulalia Bernard Little—I argue that in Costa Rica, Caribbean identity and Black motherhood politics have influenced Black women’s engagement in national politics. This account of these other (and mothers’) political routes to state power for Afro-Caribbean women in Costa Rica complements current explanations of Black women’s participation in national politics elsewhere.

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Section: A Political Genealogy Of Little's Linksmentioning

confidence: 77%

Black Motherhood Politics in Costa Rica: Diasporic Genealogies and Links to the State

Muñoz

2022

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Negotiating Gender, Policy and Politics in the Caribbean: Feminist Strategies, Masculinist Resistance and Transformational Possibilities, edited by Gabrielle Jamela Hosein and Jane Parpart

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Black Motherhood Politics in Costa Rica: Diasporic Genealogies and Links to the State

Black Motherhood Politics in Costa Rica: Diasporic Genealogies and Links to the State

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