Acknowledgments Introduction Invocation: Excerpts from Because When God Is Too Busy: Haiti, me, & THE WORLD Gina Athena Ulysse From Animal Skin to Oil Drum: African Agency Though the Steelband Movement Daina Nathaniel When the Past Becomes [the] Present: Remembering and Writing My Own Ancestral Past Osunbimpe Abegunde Racismo en la Cuba contemporanea: documental RAZA (2008) Oilda Martinez Los Ayudados: Oral History of a Guapeton T.J. Desch Obi Blackness, Music, and (National/Diasporic) Identity in the Colombian Caribbean Ligia S. Aldana Ancestry, Art, and Commodity: Maria Magalena Compos-Pons's My Mother Told Me I Am Chinese Series Heather Shirey A Prescription for Wholeness: Resisting the Discourse of Difficulty to Embrace the Challenge of Toni Case Bambara's The Salt Eaters Ashley David Selections from Kohnjehr Woman Ana-Maurine Lara Poems Lauren K. Alleyne Caribbean Spaces, Transatlantic Spirit: Violence and Spiritual Reimaginings in the Caribbean Tzarina T. Prater Poesia, mujer e identidad afro: La presencia femenina y el yo poetico de Tambores en la noche Luisa Garcia-Conde Alaridos de las Baldias: The Role of AfroColombian Poetry in the Creation of a Black Identity in Colombia Guesnerth Josue Perea Anne Lescot's and Laurence Magloire's Des homes et des dieux: Queering the Haitian Religious Experience Sophie F. Saint-Just Beyond the Battlefield of Institutions: Everyday Abolition from the Antebellum South Jasmine Syedullah La autobiografia de la artista en la nada clariceana John Thomas Maddox IV Where Do We Go from Here? A Call to Action Vanessa K. Valdes Contributors Conference Program Index
Vanessa K. Valdes is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at City College, the City University of New York.
"...the diverse contributors [Valdes] selected for this book demonstrate how vital and thought-provoking writings about the African Diaspora are then and now, using memory and sustainability of culture as the link between both ... Let Spirit Speak! is an important link to redefining how we should think about the continent of Africa and other continents and countries its descendants have made home." - Black Diaspora Review
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