Colonialist gazes and counternarratives of Blackness : Afro-Spanishness in 20th and 21st-century Spain / edited by Ana León-Távora and Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego.

Introduction : Black Spain in Afro-Europe / Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego and Ana León-Távora -- From negrophilia to necropolitics : anti-Black racism in the Spanish avant-garde humor magazines / Ana León-Távora -- The transnational Afropessimism of Francisco Zamora Loboch / Baltasar Fra-Molinero -- The value of color : Spain's equality stamps fiasco / Jeffrey Coleman -- Educating Spain about its Afro-identity on the Web : Afroféminas / Esther María Alarcón Arana -- Hidden knowledges and diasporic positionings : the autobiographical and testimonial texts in Metamba Miago : Relatos y saberes de mujeres afroespañolas / Julia Borst -- Un-whitening late Francoist Spain : knots of memory in Lucía Mombío's Las que se atrevieron / Martin Repinecz -- Decolonizing the history of Afro-Spaniards : Afrofeminismo. 50 años de lucha y activismo de mujeres negras en España (1968-2018) by Abuy Nfubea / Dosinda García-Alvite -- Mapping Black women through art and social media : the case of Montserrat Anguiano / Stefania Licata -- From below and from within : urban peripheries in Lucía Mbomío's Barrionalismos / Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego -- An inconclusive conclusion : autoethnography as a model for epistemic decolonization / Ana León-Távora.

"Building on the growing field of Afropean Studies, this interdisciplinary and intermedial collection of essays proposes a dialogue on Afro-Spanishness that is not exclusively tied to immigration, and that understands Blackness as a non-essentialist and monolithic but heterogeneous and diasporic concept. Studying a variety of 20th and 21st centuries cultural products, some essays explore the resilience of the colonialist paradigms and the circulation of racial ideologies and colonial memories that promote national narratives of whitening. Others focus on Black self-representation and examine how Afro-Spanish authors, artists, and activists destabilize colonial gazes and constructions of national identity, propose decolonial views of Spain and Europe's literature and history, articulate Afro-Diasporic knowledges, and envision Afrodescendance as an empowering tool"-- Provided by publisher.