Contrapunteos Diaspóricos

Diasporic Contrapoints integrates a set of studies and essays whose common thread is the interweaving of power, culture and politics in Our Afro-America. Through a series of contrapuntal analyzes we are composing a cartography of politics and the political in the historical universe of the Afro-Latin American diasporas. Our Afro-America is framed in the Afro world, which in its triple historical location (as alternative modernity, "counterculture of modernity" and alternative to modernity) has been and must be a pillar in the main efforts to transcend "the prehistory of humanity" and to realize, armed with hope, a kind of practical utopia inspired by the conviction that "a better world is possible.

The contrapuntal marriage of research and writing follows the example of a long tradition in Afro-diasporic, Caribbean and Latin American intellectual production that creatively combines historiography and narrative, sociological research and literary allegory, political theory and vernacular thought, auto-ethnography and historical analysis, in in order to produce non-positivist, trans/postdisciplinary scientific knowledge that cultivates its poetic imagination, its radical critical character and its commitment to decoloniality and liberation. Beating that lyrical and analytical drum, the book is divided into five parts that open with quotes from the African-American literary corpus, along with fragments of essays, popular music and references to Afrodiasporic religions, especially the Yoruba and the divinities of its pantheon: lasjlos Orishas. The literary texts (poetic, narrative, essayistic), musical, theological, and theoretical, which introduce the five parts and some of the chapters, testify to the syncopated counterpoint between the forms of discourse and the content and present an analysis in which the political is not It is reduced to the modes of organization and participation in the formal spheres of citizenship, the State and the parties, but it extends to all power struggles.