Assistant Professor Mauricio Acuña publishes the dossier Trenzar palabras: Congresos, festivales y encuentros entre artistas, intelectuales y activistas afrolatinoamericanos/as in Perspectivas Afro, featuring five articles. Among them is a translation of renowned scholar Anne Garland Mahler's work, produced by Dartmouth student Samantha Kang, supported by Undergraduate Research Assistantships at Dartmouth (URAD), and Acuña.
The dossier brings together a collection of articles that discuss literature, performances, intellectual networks, and transnational events that took place in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa during the 20th and 21st centuries. Topics explored include Afro-Latin American transnational feminism; solidarity and Black internationalism in the Spanish and Anglophone Caribbean; exile in the Black Lusophone world at the Lagos Festival of 1977; Afro-Latin American networks at the First Congress of Black Culture in the Americas; and the oralitures of the performed word in Black territories. Thus, it offers a mapping that contributes to the ongoing construction of the cartography of these important spaces of Black intellectual and artistic creation, imagination, and alliances.