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In her new book, Tufts Professor Lorgia García Peña tells the complicated story of Blackness, from the Dominican Republic and the U.S. to Italy

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7 Resources on Translating Blackness, Race, and Racism Five years ago, John Keene published “Translating Poetry, Translating Blackness,” a clarion call for more Afro-diasporic literature in English translation, noting the exclusion of Black writers from the already marginalized market of translated literature. Even greater than the dearth of Black literature in translation is the dearth of Black translators into English, not to mention the lack of writing about translating Blackness—evidenced by the fact that discussions of race and translation tend to reference Keene’s essay and not ...

Falling in Love with Bahia & Brazil: On Negritude, Saudade, & Surrender Naomi Jackson reflects on her own intellectual and cultural journey, finding affirmation in Afro-Brazilian culture, and a new dimension to her love and fascination for the stories of Black people. I have been trying actively to stave off a case of Brazil-o-philia since the early 2000s when I lived in pre-gentrification Brooklyn. Preventive care for me looked like resisting the allure of capoeira classes, which offered the promise of instant friendship and community, endless references to obscure terminology, a pet name (a...