{"id":4285,"date":"2021-02-06T01:15:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T01:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/?p=4285"},"modified":"2021-02-06T01:15:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T01:15:03","slug":"angela-castro-publishes-article-in-racialized-visions-anthology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2021\/02\/06\/angela-castro-publishes-article-in-racialized-visions-anthology\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c1ngela Castro Publishes Article in \u2018Racialized Visions\u2019 Anthology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradocollege.edu\/basics\/contact\/directory\/people\/castro_angela.html\">\u00c1ngela Castro<\/a>, a visiting assistant professor in CC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradocollege.edu\/academics\/dept\/spanish\/\">Department of Spanish and Portuguese<\/a>, is one of 12 contributors to the edited volume \u201cRacialized Visions:\u00a0Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean.\u201d Castro\u2019s article is titled \u201cHaitian and Dominican Resistance: A Study of the Symptom in Edwidge Danticat\u2019s\u00a0\u2018The Farming of Bones.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her article proposes that&nbsp;\u201cThe Farming of Bones\u201d&nbsp;portrays Dominican-Haitian history through a symptomatic trauma imprinted through bodily and mental traces that also can be seen in recent interactions between the two nations. Castro\u2019s current project explores representations of \u201cbeyond-blackness\u201d in the Panamanian writer Melanie Taylor\u2019s edited anthology, \u201cCamino a Mariato.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRacialized Visions,\u201d edited by Vanessa K. Vald\u00e9s with Suny Press, is the first volume in English to explore the cultural impact of Haiti on the surrounding Spanish-speaking nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.<br><br>As a Francophone nation, Haiti is seldom studied in conjunction with its Spanish-speaking Caribbean neighbors.\u00a0\u201cRacialized Visions\u201d\u00a0challenges the notion that linguistic difference has kept the populations of these countries apart, instead highlighting ongoing exchanges between their writers, artists, and thinkers. Centering Haiti in this conversation also makes explicit the role that race \u2014 and, more specifically, anti-blackness \u2014 has played both in the region and in academic studies of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Castro\u2019s research areas include 20th-century Afro-Caribbean female writing, Afro-Caribbean bodies, and diasporic studies.\u00a0She earned a B.A. in literature from the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c1ngela Castro, a visiting assistant professor in CC\u2019s Department of Spanish and Portuguese, is one of 12 contributors to the edited volume \u201cRacialized Visions:\u00a0Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean.\u201d Castro\u2019s article is titled \u201cHaitian and Dominican Resistance: A Study of the Symptom in Edwidge Danticat\u2019s\u00a0\u2018The Farming of Bones.\u2019 \u201d Her article proposes that&nbsp;\u201cThe Farming of Bones\u201d&nbsp;portrays &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2021\/02\/06\/angela-castro-publishes-article-in-racialized-visions-anthology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u00c1ngela Castro Publishes Article in \u2018Racialized Visions\u2019 Anthology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4286,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions\/4286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}