Prisca Gayles
Biographic Data
| ID | 911253 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Prisca Gayles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Prisca |
| FAMILY NAME | Gayles |
| SIGNATURE | GAYLES P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Reno |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6169-7145 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Critical Research and Perspectives
Unveiling Latin American White multiculturalism: Black women’s politics in Argentina and Costa Rica
This article proposes theoretical and methodological approaches to researching Whiteness in two countries that embraced Whiteness over mestizaje and adopted ‘late multiculturalism’: Costa Rica and Argentina. We situate our analysis within critical race and Black feminist frameworks, which argue that the construction of White identity cannot exist without the construction of racialized others and that Black women’s experiences and knowledge offer …
Qué vendes morena: Unpacking the bodily territorialization of Black women in Buenos Aires
A recurring experience for many Black women in Buenos Aires is the assumption that they are ‘prostitutes’. This article examines how assumptions that violate the black feminine body by assigning it stigmatized roles become trivialized and normalized in Argentina, a nation many Argentines claim is devoid of antiblack racism. I draw from the concepts of ‘bodily territorialization’, ‘space invaders’, and ‘overdetermined nominative properties’, as co…
De dónde sos: (Black) Argentina and the mechanisms of maintaining racial myths
Afrodescendant activists in Argentina challenge the belief that there are no Black Argentines, and therefore an impossibility of anti-black racism in the country. Insufficient data on race, the complex separation of the word negro (black) from phenotype, and the myth of Argentina as a “white” nation that falls outside the purview of Latin America’s racialized nations have resulted in a dearth of scholarship on this case. Drawing from twenty-two m…
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De dónde sos: (Black) Argentina and the mechanisms of maintaining racial myths
Afrodescendant activists in Argentina challenge the belief that there are no Black Argentines, and therefore an impossibility of anti-black racism in the country. Insufficient data on race, the complex separation of the word negro (black) from phenotype, and the myth of Argentina as a “white” nation that falls outside the purview of Latin America’s racialized nations have resulted in a dearth of scholarship on this case. Drawing from twenty-two m…
Qué vendes morena: Unpacking the bodily territorialization of Black women in Buenos Aires
A recurring experience for many Black women in Buenos Aires is the assumption that they are ‘prostitutes’. This article examines how assumptions that violate the black feminine body by assigning it stigmatized roles become trivialized and normalized in Argentina, a nation many Argentines claim is devoid of antiblack racism. I draw from the concepts of ‘bodily territorialization’, ‘space invaders’, and ‘overdetermined nominative properties’, as co…
Unveiling Latin American White multiculturalism: Black women’s politics in Argentina and Costa Rica
This article proposes theoretical and methodological approaches to researching Whiteness in two countries that embraced Whiteness over mestizaje and adopted ‘late multiculturalism’: Costa Rica and Argentina. We situate our analysis within critical race and Black feminist frameworks, which argue that the construction of White identity cannot exist without the construction of racialized others and that Black women’s experiences and knowledge offer …
Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Critical Research and Perspectives
Latin American and Latino Studies (4 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Latin Americans (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Racism (2 works) · Art (1 works) · Criminology (1 works)