Afro-Caribbean Women of Post-Colonialism through the Practice of Art: A Teach-in led by Zainab Floyd (A Reading List)
Photo of Zainab Floyd, founder and creator of the Caribbean Archive.
Zainab Floyd’s teach-in on Afro-Caribbean Women is a part of Black Women Radicals’ School For Black Feminist Politics.
A teach-in led by Zainab Floyd, founder of the Caribbean Archive, “Afro-Caribbean Women of Post-Colonialism through the Practice of Art” centers on fashion, dance, and music. The purpose of this discussion is to further highlight historical narratives of reference and to provide a visual language for the lack of representation of Black women in the Caribbean who have contributed profoundly towards defining a visual and bodily response of what resistance can look like. Floyd’s teach-in is a part of Black Women Radicals’ School for Black Feminist Politics.
Watch Zainab Floyd’s teach-in, “Afro-Caribbean Women of Post-Colonialism through the Practice of Art” on YouTube.
About the Curator of the Teach-In: Zainab Floyd is a Haitian and Black American practicing artist. She is based in New York. Zainab is the founder and curator of Caribbean Archive and the Co-founder of the artist collective ZAZA. She centers Black women narratives as the focal point of her works. She is interested in themes of Black feminism and post-colonialism. She utilizes archives from the Caribbean as a tool for re-imagining history and spaces for resistance. You can follow The Caribbean Archive on Instagram and Twitter.
Reading List for “Afro-Caribbean Women of Post-Colonialism through the Practice of Art”
Zamor, Helen “Indian Heritage in the French Creole-Speaking Caribbean: A Reference to the Madras Material.” (155), 2014)
Serving the Lwa.” Afro-Caribbean Religions: An Introduction to Their Historical, Cultural, and Sacred Traditions, by Nathaniel Samuel Murrell, Temple University Press, 2010, pp. 74–92.
Kevin Yelvington, “Flirting in the Factory,” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1996
Marie-José N'Zengou-Tayo, 'Fanm Se Poto Mitan': Haitian Woman, the Pillar of Society, 1998
Golden, Diana. “Staging the Nation through Art Music of the Haitian Diaspora.” Journal of Haitian Studies, vol. 24, no. 2, 2018, pp. 37–84.
“Come for the Party.” Tambú: Curaçao's African-Caribbean Ritual and the Politics of Memory, by NANETTE DE JONG
Edwidge Danticat, Eyes Breath Memory, 1994
Edwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak!,“Children of the Sea”, 1995
Katherine Dunham, Island Possessed, 1969
Audre Lorde, “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” 1978
Ada Ferrer, Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haitian in the Age of Revolution, 2014
Yvette Modestin and Marta Moreno Vega, Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora, 2012