Introduction: Black Writing on the Latin American Mainland: Disruptions to the Prose of Multiculturalism Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar Part I: Afro Poetics 1. Language and the Construction of Gendered Identities in Afro-Mexican Corridos or Ballads Paulette A. Ramsay 2. A Post-Ethnic/Racial Futurescape in Wingston González's cafeína MC Juan Guillermo Sánchez Martínez 3. Antonio Preciado: Ecuador's Afrocentric Poet Michael Handelsman Part II: Lettered Outliers 4. Transatlantic Routing and Rooting in Quince Duncan's Kimbo Gloria Elizabeth Chacón 5. The Palimpsestic Afro-Panamanian Woman in Melanie Taylor Herrera's Camino a Mariato Ángela Castro 6. Black Lives Matter in Brazil: Cidinha da Silva's #Parem de nós matar Eliseo Jacob Part III: Intellectual Sonar 7.

Other Forests: The Afro-Brazilian Literary Archive Isis Barra Costa 8. Dismantling Coloniality via the Vocabulary of Afro-Chilean and Afro-Puerto Rican Music-Dance Juan Eduardo Wolf 9. Xiomara Cacho Caballero: Linguistic Heritage and Afro-Indigenous Survivance on Roatán Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar 10. Reclaiming Lands, Identity, and Autonomy: Rapping Youth in Rural Chocó, Colombia Diana Rodríguez Quevedo Afterword: Racial Encounters in the Americas in Times of Black Lives Matter Mamadou Badiane Index.