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Afro-Latinx Digital Connections Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America Afro-Latinx Digital Connections Edited by Eduard Arriaga and Andrés Villar University of Florida Press Gainesville Copyright 2021 by Eduard Arriaga and Andrés Villar All rights reserved Published in the United States of America. 26 25 24 23 22 21 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Arriaga Arango, Eduard, editor. | Villar, Andrés, editor. Title: Afro-Latinx digital connections / edited by Eduard Arriaga and Andrés Villar. Other titles: Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America. Description: Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 2021. | Series: Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020046384 (print) | LCCN 2020046385 (ebook) | ISBN 9781683402046 (hardback) | ISBN 9781683402398 (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: Social justice—South America. | Social justice—Caribbean Area. | Blacks—South America—Social conditions. | Blacks—Caribbean Area—Social conditions. | Digital media—South America. | Digital media—Caribbean Area. | Racism—Caribbean Area. | Racism—South America. Classification: LCC HM671 .A39 2021 (print) | LCC HM671 (ebook) | DDC 302.23/1—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020046384 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020046385 University of Florida Press 2046 NE Waldo Road Suite 2100 Gainesville, FL 32609 http://upress.ufl.edu Contents List of Abbreviations vii Introduction 1 Eduard Arriaga and Andrés Villar 1. Afro-Latinx Digital Cultures: Toward Complex and Diverse (Digital?) Humanities 22 Eduard Arriaga 2. Digital Autonomy and Knowledge Production by Black Brazilian Women: Interview with Silvana Bahia 45 Eduard Arriaga and Andrés Villar 3. Afro-Latina Minimal Computing: Interview with Sandra Abd’Allah- Álvarez Ramírez 57 Eduard Arriaga and Andrés Villar 4. Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Cuban Digital Culture 65 Maya Anderson-González 5. Fighting Racism with Digital Weapons: Interview with Mónica Carrillo 84 Eduard Arriaga and Andrés Villar 6. International Organization Theory and Online Afro-Latin America 96 Yvonne Captain 7. Between Analog and Digital Activism in Afro-Colombia: Interview with Yancy Castillo and Dora Inés Vivanco 119 Eduard Arriaga and Andrés Villar 8. Toward the Creation of an Afro-Argentine Digital Archive in the Cape Verdean Association of Buenos Aires 127 María Cecilia Martino 9. Borrowing Digital Tools to Connect the Periphery: Interview with Alí Majul 144 Eduard Arriaga and Andrés Villar 10. Using Games to Build Connections in Africa and Beyond: Interview with Adebayo Adegbembo 156 Eduard Arriaga and Andrés Villar 11. Epilogue: Using Digital Tools to Build Afro-Latinx Connections and Futures 164 Eduard Arriaga and Andrés Villar List of Contributors 175 Index 177 Abbreviations CENESEX Center for National Sex Education (Cuba) CNOA Conferencia Nacional de Organizaciones Afrocolombianas (National Assembly of Afro-Colombian Organizations) IAF Inter-American Foundation ICT information and communications technology IDB Inter-American Development Bank IO international organizations IT information technology MERCOSUR Mercado Común del Sur (Southern Common Market) MINTUR Cuban Ministry of Tourism OAS Organization of American States PAIGC Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde) SEGIB Secretaría General Iberoamericana (General Secretariat for Ibero-America) Introduction EDUARD ARRIAGA AND ANDRÉS VILLAR This book about Afro-Latinx digital connections seeks to highlight how Latin American and Caribbean people of African descent, or Afrodescendants, use digital tools to bolster the agency of individuals and communities, both lo- cally and across national boundaries. Many of the texts collected here are written by academics; interest in digital technologies, however, exceeds the boundaries of the academy, as anyone living in our contemporary connected world can attest. We have therefore also included interviews with Afrodescen- dants who use digital technologies to foster connections within and among Afrodescendant communities. The technologies examined here are symptom- atic of a digital network encircling the globe at a truly breathtaking speed, a network which is itself the result of numerous interwoven networks of differ- ent sizes. Developments in mobile technologies, artificial intelligence, and the so-called internet of things are paving the way into a future of even greater human integration with computational hardware and software. Yet compared to the seemingly unalloyed enthusiasm that technology elicited just a few de- cades ago, today we are more ambivalent about the implications of a digitally connected world. On the one hand we cherish the apps on our phones and the gadgets that seem to make our life more “convenient,” but on the other hand we are also increasingly aware that the ubiquity of digital technologies facilitates hacking, the proliferation of malware, and surveillance by state
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