Ana-Maurine Lara
Biographic Data
| ID | 3672531 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ana-Maurine Lara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ana-Maurine |
| FAMILY NAME | Lara |
| SIGNATURE | LARA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | ana-maurine lara is currently Associate Professor at the University of Oregon, in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Afro-Indigenous Women Healers in the Caribbean and Its Diasporas
Caribbean Women Healers: Decolonizing Knowledge Within Afro-Indigenous Traditions, is a multi-year collaborative research co-produced by faculty and digital librarians and technical professionals from the University of Oregon Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Services (DSS). This digital humanities project contributes to existing Black Digital Humanities by centering deep-listening and digital decolonization methodologies that prioritize human digni…
An Auto-Ethnography of Relational Knowledge Production
This essay is an auto-ethnographic narrative of relational knowledge production. I argue that examining the ways in which we guard the boundaries of the normal has implications for how we might theorize Latinx folklore studies, specifically with regard to questions of sexuality, gender, and race. I discuss several critiques articulated by Black, Indigenous, and Latin American LGBTQ+ activists and scholars about the idea of the "queer," the "quír,…
Queer Freedom
"Theoretically wide-ranging and deeply personal and poetic, Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty is based on over three years of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic. Ana-Maurine Lara draws on her engagement in traditional ceremonies, observations of national Catholic celebrations, and interviews with activists from peasant, feminist, and LGBT communities to reframe contemporary conversations about queerness and blackness. The result is a rich ethnog…
Streetwalking
Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic is an exploration of the ways that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer persons exercise power in a Catholic Hispanic heteropatriarchal nation-state, namely the Dominican Republic. Lara presents the specific strategies employed by LGBTQ community leaders in the Dominican Republic in their struggle for subjectivity, recognition, and rights. Drawing on ethnographic encounters, film…
Erotic Islands
Strategic Universalisms and Dominican LGBT Activist Struggles for Civil and Human Rights
Drawing on the strategies employed by LGBT activists in the Dominican Republic, this essay seeks to theorize how strategic universalisms are mobilized as a form of agentive sociopolitical action. Delineating how universalization has historically been a tool of Catholic coloniality and empire, the author demonstrates the unique position of LGBT activists in the global South. In the context of the global South, and specifically a context that is he…
A Smarting Wound
This article asks readers to consider expanding on ideas of Afro-Dominicanidad, and hegemonic narratives of blackness and anti-blackness. The goal is two-fold: first, to consider how ultra-nationalist movements in the Dominican Republic render dark-skinned Dominicans untenable to the viability of the Dominican nation-state and second: to identify how emic discourses of Afro-descent expand the epistemic grounds in the on-going fight against ultra-…
Of Unexplained Presences, Flying Ife Heads, Vampires, Sweat, Zombies, and Legbas
This review, a meditation, considers how two multigenre arts events, DASH (Austin, Texas; October 2009) and the Ghetto Biennale (Port-au-Prince, Haiti; December 2009), when considered side by side, present the material and theoretical terms for articulating black queer aesthetics. These black queer aesthetics, rather than a static set of signifiers, emerge as practices and imaginings that engage and interweave multiple notions of time, material r…
Halfie
Halfie Ana-Maurine Lara (bio) I peel my thigh from the plastic covering his mother’s couch. I let my hair cover my face as I sneak a sideways glance in his direction. Angel’s talking about something, but I mostly focus on his face, the way the golden brown skin has turned a sallow beige. He holds his hands open, like big nets swatting at the air as he speaks. Trying to catch something. Something. The spring light coming in from the window plays o…
A Smarting Wound
This article asks readers to consider expanding on ideas of Afro-Dominicanidad, and hegemonic narratives of blackness and anti-blackness. The goal is two-fold: first, to consider how ultra-nationalist movements in the Dominican Republic render dark-skinned Dominicans untenable to the viability of the Dominican nation-state and second: to identify how emic discourses of Afro-descent expand the epistemic grounds in the on-going fight against ultra-…
An Auto-Ethnography of Relational Knowledge Production
This essay is an auto-ethnographic narrative of relational knowledge production. I argue that examining the ways in which we guard the boundaries of the normal has implications for how we might theorize Latinx folklore studies, specifically with regard to questions of sexuality, gender, and race. I discuss several critiques articulated by Black, Indigenous, and Latin American LGBTQ+ activists and scholars about the idea of the "queer," the "quír,…
Halfie
Halfie Ana-Maurine Lara (bio) I peel my thigh from the plastic covering his mother’s couch. I let my hair cover my face as I sneak a sideways glance in his direction. Angel’s talking about something, but I mostly focus on his face, the way the golden brown skin has turned a sallow beige. He holds his hands open, like big nets swatting at the air as he speaks. Trying to catch something. Something. The spring light coming in from the window plays o…
Of Unexplained Presences, Flying Ife Heads, Vampires, Sweat, Zombies, and Legbas
This review, a meditation, considers how two multigenre arts events, DASH (Austin, Texas; October 2009) and the Ghetto Biennale (Port-au-Prince, Haiti; December 2009), when considered side by side, present the material and theoretical terms for articulating black queer aesthetics. These black queer aesthetics, rather than a static set of signifiers, emerge as practices and imaginings that engage and interweave multiple notions of time, material r…
A Smarting Wound
This article asks readers to consider expanding on ideas of Afro-Dominicanidad, and hegemonic narratives of blackness and anti-blackness. The goal is two-fold: first, to consider how ultra-nationalist movements in the Dominican Republic render dark-skinned Dominicans untenable to the viability of the Dominican nation-state and second: to identify how emic discourses of Afro-descent expand the epistemic grounds in the on-going fight against ultra-…
Strategic Universalisms and Dominican LGBT Activist Struggles for Civil and Human Rights
Drawing on the strategies employed by LGBT activists in the Dominican Republic, this essay seeks to theorize how strategic universalisms are mobilized as a form of agentive sociopolitical action. Delineating how universalization has historically been a tool of Catholic coloniality and empire, the author demonstrates the unique position of LGBT activists in the global South. In the context of the global South, and specifically a context that is he…
Erotic Islands
Queer Freedom
"Theoretically wide-ranging and deeply personal and poetic, Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty is based on over three years of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic. Ana-Maurine Lara draws on her engagement in traditional ceremonies, observations of national Catholic celebrations, and interviews with activists from peasant, feminist, and LGBT communities to reframe contemporary conversations about queerness and blackness. The result is a rich ethnog…
Streetwalking
Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic is an exploration of the ways that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer persons exercise power in a Catholic Hispanic heteropatriarchal nation-state, namely the Dominican Republic. Lara presents the specific strategies employed by LGBTQ community leaders in the Dominican Republic in their struggle for subjectivity, recognition, and rights. Drawing on ethnographic encounters, film…
Afro-Indigenous Women Healers in the Caribbean and Its Diasporas
Caribbean Women Healers: Decolonizing Knowledge Within Afro-Indigenous Traditions, is a multi-year collaborative research co-produced by faculty and digital librarians and technical professionals from the University of Oregon Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Services (DSS). This digital humanities project contributes to existing Black Digital Humanities by centering deep-listening and digital decolonization methodologies that prioritize human digni…
An Auto-Ethnography of Relational Knowledge Production
This essay is an auto-ethnographic narrative of relational knowledge production. I argue that examining the ways in which we guard the boundaries of the normal has implications for how we might theorize Latinx folklore studies, specifically with regard to questions of sexuality, gender, and race. I discuss several critiques articulated by Black, Indigenous, and Latin American LGBTQ+ activists and scholars about the idea of the "queer," the "quír,…
Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Queer (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works)