Amefrican women: body-territory, ancestrality and memories of women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Abstract

This paper proposes a discussion on Amefrican women’s memories from a contracolonial perspective in dialogue with Lelia Gonzalez’s dialectic between conscientiousness and memories, focusing on her theoretical and practical contributions through the category Amefrican. To this end, we based on methodologies that privilege memories through orality, in which narratives and meanings woven an “invisible mantle” by Latin America and Caribbean women from their struggles and resistance. We address women’s resistance against violence and civil rights violations from a perspective of body-territory and ancestrality, as well as healing practices, territorial dynamics, and protection and care networks developed by Amefrican women. Our aim is to articulate movements of creation and re-creation of women’s resistance and insurgency within a specific spatiotemporal context in Latin American and Caribbean. Our Black/Amefrican/ Quilombola sisterhood is beyond geographical and cultural distance that allows us to create a network of knowledge production and care.