Afro-Latinx Migration: Testimonios of Boriqua Refusal, Reclamation and Identity in the US South

Global capitalist relations have recast the cartography of the plantation through free-market bondage and settler-colonial dispossession. Black bodies through displacement, occupation and appearance in the Western Hemisphere index the cartographies of struggle initiated by colonial economization. This project addresses blackness, place and violence in response to the sprawling global plantation as a palimpsest state of Black expulsion. Placing the plantation as the analytical center of this work distinguishes coloniality and capitalism as undergirding enduring racial hierarchies which provoke dispossession. Thinking broadly across already existing paradigms of scholarship which assert race as a product of space and place this project seeks to relay a narrative account of Afro-Latinx people residing in the Deep South. Exploring Afro-Latinx identity through the testimonios of Nuyorican Boricuas in the US South presents an opportunity to understand the ongoing hemispheric project of Black subject formation and its relationship to patriarchy.