Pub Date : 2021-04-01DOI: 10.5406/womgenfamcol.9.1.0061
Jessica Adams
Abstract:This essay about disaster, imperialism, and concepts of home comprises three parts. The first explores attempts to grapple with the meaning of centuries of colonization as it plays out even in the most minor, mundane details. The second engages relevant legal frameworks that can aid in understanding issues of race and gender within a neoimperial context. This section focuses on two legal cases associated with Adolfina Villanueva Osorio, a resident of Loíza, Puerto Rico, whom armed police and marshals attempted to force from her home based on a court order favoring the interests of the wealthy new owner of the land. In the process of the forcible eviction, which took place in 1980, the police murdered Adolfina in front of her family. In discussing these cases, I consider intersections of gendered bodies and property rights to better understand the ongoing effects of neoliberalism, and specifically how these impact concepts of home. The third part looks at the socially engaged work of the artists known as Las Nietas de Nonó, two sisters who have created a performance space in their grandparents' former house in the Barrio of San Antón, in Carolina, Puerto Rico. As I discuss their interventionary, avant-garde work, I consider how art, colonial realities, and the law coexist in the details of everyday life.
摘要:本文主要探讨灾难、帝国主义和家的概念，分为三个部分。第一部分探讨了几个世纪以来殖民的意义，因为它甚至在最微小、最平凡的细节中发挥作用。第二部分涉及相关的法律框架，可以帮助理解新帝国主义背景下的种族和性别问题。本节重点关注与Adolfina Villanueva Osorio有关的两个法律案件，她是波多黎各Loíza的居民，武装警察和法警试图根据有利于富有的新土地所有者利益的法院命令将她赶出家中。在1980年的强制驱逐过程中，警察当着阿道夫娜家人的面杀害了她。在讨论这些案例时，我考虑了性别身体和财产权的交叉点，以更好地理解新自由主义的持续影响，特别是这些影响如何影响家庭概念。第三部分着眼于Las Nietas de Nonó艺术家的社会参与作品，这是一对姐妹，她们在波多黎各卡罗莱纳州San Antón Barrio的祖父母的旧房子里创造了一个表演空间。当我讨论他们的干预性、先锋性的作品时，我思考艺术、殖民现实和法律如何在日常生活的细节中共存。
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Pub Date : 2021-04-01DOI: 10.5406/womgenfamcol.9.1.0083
J. Poblete
Abstract:This essay highlights some of the unexpected leadership roles that women have played in relation to the oil industry on St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) from 1965 to the present. The people of St. Croix (Crucians) have a long and proud history of strong women as community and family leaders. Despite their invisibility in contemporary narratives of oil refining under U.S. colonialism on St. Croix, Crucian women have contested commonly held stereotypes of women's roles and contributed to, as well as challenged, the refinery on their own terms. This article is part of a broader literature about women's leadership across civil society, the private sector, and the public sector in the Caribbean and Latin America that focuses on women's agency. This essay is also about the unequal situations that places like St. Croix face when negotiating with multinational corporations under colonial circumstances. While the oil industry generates income for the USVI, the refinery has environmental impacts injurious to the local population. Despite colonial, neocolonial, and patriarchal characteristics of their societies, women leaders on St. Croix, across the Caribbean, and Latin America have been a constant phenomenon, not just a recent occurrence. All the women in this essay demonstrate the centrality that women's guidance, leadership, and actions play in the fostering, functioning, and protection of families, communities, and public and private institutions on St. Croix. The women in this essay created their own opportunities and took matters into their own hands, demonstrating alternative expressions of self and community values, as well as local action and agency, whether through personal relations, labor protests, stringent economic negotiations, occupying political office, and/or community-based activism.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-01DOI: 10.5406/womgenfamcol.9.1.0102
G. Ali
Abstract:This curatorial essay explores the dynamic role of Guyanese women artists and their persistence in using the arts to counter dangerous single stories of Guyana. These are women who have labored for their country, women who are in service to a larger vision of what Guyana is, can, and ought to be in the world. While honoring an older generation of Guyanese women, the essay simultaneously highlights a younger generation of Guyanese women across various stages in their artistic practices who have gained newfound power and an emancipatory vision through the arts. As a whole, this younger generation uses their artistic practices to resist a legacy of absence and invisibility of Guyanese women, even while the cadre of contemporary women artists of Guyanese heritage remains relatively under the radar—to both Guyanese people and on the world stage.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-01DOI: 10.5406/womgenfamcol.9.1.0042
Yumi Pak
Abstract:Patricia Powell's The Pagoda, published in 1998, is an aesthetic actualization of the in-betweenness of Jamaica's purported self-definition as diasporic, hybrid, multiple. Jamaica, as with many countries in the Caribbean that withstood and resisted their respective European colonizing nations, is a site that makes visible its histories of Indigenous servitude and genocide, the importing of African slaves and subsequent indentured laborers from Asia, and the continuous presence of hegemonic systems of repressive and ideological powers. Taking place in 1893, after the abolition of slavery in the British Empire but well before Jamaican independence, Powell's novel harkens back to Olive Senior's parrot that finds itself caught between what was, what is, and the unavoidable shifts wrought by the invasion that is the British Empire (Senior 2005). Inasmuch as Senior's parrot can be read as a reflection of Jamaica's diasporic, hybrid, and multiple self-definition, I turn to Powell's characters—specifically her protagonists Lowe and Miss Sylvie—to consider what purpose such an in-between can serve. I begin by arguing for a reading of Lowe as one who brings to the forefront the tensions of colonial logic by virtue of his race, gender, and sexuality, none of which are easily categorized, or indeed, easily known. I propose that, by situating Lowe, a Chinese Jamaican, both within and outside expected codes of racialized, gendered, and sexualized behaviors, The Pagoda lays bare the ways in which colonial logic—manifesting as demands for purity and order—derails any move toward liberation. If Lowe functions as the primary conduit of this argument, I contend that Miss Sylvie, his wife, offers an alternative venue for radical possibilities that fall outside the rigid conventions of 1890s Jamaica, a Black maternal that is always already the queer maternal, what I call in this article the "Black queer maternal"—a maternal that does not rely on reproduction, either literal or figurative, as its raison d'être. Powell challenges the colonial logic of discrete identity markers and categorizations in Lowe's adopted country of residence, not to reverse it but to illuminate the unexpected possibilities that arise from the space of refusal, and the space of the diasporic, hybrid, multiple that is Jamaica.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-01DOI: 10.5406/womgenfamcol.9.1.0001
Cécile Accilien, G. Anatol, Apricot Irving, Odile Ferly, Yumi Pak, Jessica Adams, J. Poblete, G. Ali
Abstract:In Haitian-Dominican Counterpoint (2003), Eugenio Matibag argues that the two nations of Hispaniola have developed a symbiotic relation largely ignored by scholars, who generally regard their rapport as solely conflictual. Matibag notes the responsibility of "state-sponsored" nationalist discourses in the buildup of centuries-old tensions that have shaped the sense of collective identity on the island. His close examination of the history of paninsular relations reveals a pattern of complementariness rather than competition, especially in economic terms. Matibag, however, offers a predominantly Dominican perspective on Hispaniola, as most evident in his discussion of the Haitian figure in Dominican literature. While the pivotal part played by Haitianness in the Dominican psyche has come under increasing scrutiny in recent scholarship, the analysis of the converse phenomenon has received far less attention.This article examines the symbolic role of Dominicanness in the Haitian literary imaginary. After a succinct recapitulation of common depictions of Haitianness in the Dominican imaginary and collective identity, followed by a survey of the gendered characterization of Dominicans in Caribbean writing and societies at large, this article briefly turns to Dominican representations in Edwidge Danticat's "Between the Pool and the Gardenias" (1993) and The Farming of Bones (1998) and then to the portrayal of the Dominican specter that figures in Gary Victor's A l'angle des rues parallèles (2003). Perhaps unexpectedly, these Haitian texts published around the turn of the millennium illustrate in many ways the complementariness and collaboration that Matibag regards as characteristic of paninsular relations on Hispaniola.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.5406/womgenfamcol.8.1.0087
M. Roman
Abstract:This essay explores the arrest, imprisonment, and trial of Angela Davis as the most politically charged legal defense case of the détente era of the Cold War that drew international attention over a nearly two-year period (1970–72). It demonstrates that the life of this young black female intellectual in post-civil rights America became inseparable from securing (or contesting) the dominant narrative of U.S. democratic superiority. Davis, her family, and legal team insisted that racism and politics motivated the criminal charges against her and that a transnational movement was imperative to ensuring her safety as a black woman communist in the American justice system. U.S. leaders and mainstream journalists dismissed the veracity of such claims, ridiculed Davis’s fears for her safety, and asserted that political trials and racism existed only “over there” in the communist universe. They racialized Davis as a “black militant,” invoking traditional sexist–racist tropes of black women as emotionally unstable, sexual sirens, in order to reassure the American public of the righteousness of U.S. democracy and of Davis’s concomitant guilt. After an all-white jury acquitted Davis of all criminal charges, the mainstream press hailed the acquittal as evidence not of Davis’s innocence but as proof that she was wrong about America. Davis persisted in contesting on a world stage America’s Cold War claims of democratic moral superiority and traveled to the Soviet Union to thank leaders for helping spearhead the international campaign that she credited for saving her life.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.5406/womgenfamcol.8.1.0065
Kimberly R. Moffitt
Abstract:Meghan Burke defines colorism as “the allocation of privilege and disadvantage according to the lightness or darkness of one’s skin” (International Encyclopedia of the Social Social Sciences, 2nd ed.). The intraracial practice can be heightened in familial interactions. This collaborative autoethnography utilizes Alice Walker’s framework of womanism to explore the narratives of colorism in a mother–daughter relationship when the two do not share the same skin hue. Womanism instructs us to break our silence around practices that denigrate us and seek ways to survive and thrive in our blackness. Four specific incidents experienced by my adolescent daughter are shared to critique colorism and consider strategies for navigating this practice and sustaining a mother–daughter relationship.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.5406/womgenfamcol.8.1.0005
P. Banerjee, Soulit Chacko, Bhumika Piya
Abstract:Based on ethnography in a South Asian ethnic enclave and in-depth interviews with South Asian immigrant women, including single mothers working in the enclave, we explore the becoming and being of South Asian single motherhood. We specifically inquire how the becoming of single mothers affects the work–family lives of the mothers in an enclave economy. We show that the interplays of structural forces like immigration laws, racialized model-minority discourses, gendered ideologies of South Asian motherhood, and underlying patriarchy of the enclave economy create what we call “uneven paradoxes” for South Asian single mothers that further marginalize them. We further suggest that the single mothers challenge the paradoxes that mire their lives by striking up “patriarchal bargains” to find resources for themselves and their children and thus find agency within their constraining circumstances.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.5406/womgenfamcol.8.1.0040
Kimberly D. Mckee
Abstract:Korean children represent the largest group of international, transracial adoptees in the United States, and the majority of these children enter white families. Since the 1980s, adoptive families and children have become engaged with one another through culture (or heritage) camps, local and national adoption organizations, adoption agency postadoption services, adoption list-serves, and adoption-related Facebook groups. The emergence of an adult adoptee community coincided with these connections between adoptive parents and their children. Yet these communities—adoptive parents and adult adoptees—do not exist in isolation from one another. To better understand how the two communities operate in concert and conversation together, this essay examines the role of the annual Korean Adoption Conference (KAC)—operated by a national organization dedicated to supporting the Korean adoption community—in the lives of Korean adult adoptees and the adoptive parents of Korean children. Drawing from survey data of adult Korean adoptees and adoptive parents of Korean adoptees and a collection of oral histories of those involved in the KAC as attendees, speakers, and/or leaders, this article explores the implications of forging community across the adoption constellation. By placing these voices in conversation with one another, this essay contributes to new knowledges concerning the value of listening and learning from one another as a mechanism to engender change in mainstream conversations and debates concerning adoption. I elucidate how the KAC is a site for adoptees and their adoptive families to contest what it means to be in community or kinship with one another through the development of public intimacies. In doing so, I explore what it means to cultivate an intentional space for adoptees and adoptive parents to engage one another and disentangle assumptions that there is a monolithic adoptee or adoptive parent experience.
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