"Voicing Negra-ness: Storytelling Black Pride and Prejudice in Puerto Rico"

Using feminist ethnography, Quiñones-Rivera illustrates, in “Voicing Negra-ness: Storytelling Black Pride and Prejudice in Puerto Rico,” the simultaneous existence of shades of prejudice and black pride that coexists in... [ view full abstract ]

Using feminist ethnography, Quiñones-Rivera illustrates, in “Voicing Negra-ness: Storytelling Black Pride and Prejudice in Puerto Rico,” the simultaneous existence of shades of prejudice and black pride that coexists in the Puerto Rican “culturally and racially mixed family” ideology. She documents how counter-narratives of racial microaggressions and celebrations of black pride emerge in the storytelling of Black Puerto Rican women.