Intro
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Spiritual and Emotional Resistance to Empire
"We Are All in This Afro-Diasporic Body": African Diasporic Consciousness and Fractality
Rebellious Spirit/Against Western Modernity
Caribbean Fractals and Space-Time Otherwise
"I Don't Want My People in More Pain": Feminist Emotional Politics through Spirit
Emotional Politics in the African Diaspora and the Caribbean
"We Need a Heart-Centered Community": Decolonial Love, Joy, and Ethical Relations
Decolonial Love
Chapter Outline

Chapter 1: Sacred Memories: Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Mayra Santos-Febres, and the Politics of Race in Puerto Rico
Historical Hauntings
An Island in the Wake
Slavery, Ancestors, and Racial Play
Ancestras and the Erotic Space of Self
Embracing the Wake, Sacred Memories
Chapter 2: The Path of Erzulie: Love, Vodou, and Counter-Imaginations of Hispaniola
Invoking the Spirits
The Feminist Politics of Erzulie's Decolonial Love
Opening Paths
Erzulie's Spirit and Political Imaginations of the Borderland
Erzulie's Wake

Chapter 3: Afro-Latina Feminisms: Nuyorican, Domincanyork, and Afro-Latinx Political Resistance
Occupying the Border, Inhabiting Pain
An Alliance of Love and Survival
Nitty Scott and Ancestral Remembrance
Elizabeth Acevedo: Beauty, Religiosity, and Liberation
María Teresa Fernández (La Mariposa): Happiness and the Embodied Borders of Latinidad
Afro-Latinx Expressions
Chapter 4: The Raw Ones: Ibeyi, Las Krudas CUBENSI, and Pedagogies of Resistance
Revolution and Race in Cuba
Anti-Racist Spiritual Politics in Contemporary Music and Hip-Hop
Yemayá's Many Paths

Ibeyi: Transnational Orishas
Raw Pedagogies: Cuban Hip-Hop and Challenges to Coloniality
"Yemayá Blew That Wire Fence Down": Transatlantic Crossings
Santeras Beyond Cuba
Conclusion: Conjuring Paths, Points of Departure
Notes
Works Cited
Index