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Journal Article
Black Motherhood Politics in Costa Rica: Diasporic Genealogies and Links to the State
2023
Overview
Black women who seek and win elected office are changing the political landscape in the Americas. In Latin America, this shift became widely recognized when Epsy Campbell Barr became the first Black woman vice president in Costa Rica in 2018. Her election builds on the work of three generations of women whose engagement in formal politics is rooted in their intertwined identities as Black, women, and of West Indian descent. By recovering a racialized, gendered, and ethnicized lineage of community activism, relationships, and networking—which I call “Little’s links” to honor the legacy of the writer and activist Eulalia Bernard Little—I argue that in Costa Rica, Caribbean identity and Black motherhood politics have influenced Black women’s engagement in national politics. This account of these other (and mothers’) political routes to state power for Afro-Caribbean women in Costa Rica complements current explanations of Black women’s participation in national politics elsewhere. La llegada de mujeres negras a la arena electoral está cambiando el panorama político de las Américas. En Latinoamérica, este logro fue ampliamente reconocido con la elección de Epsy Campbell Barr como la primera vicepresidente, mujer y negra de Costa Rica. Sin embargo, su elección en el 2018 no ocurrió en el vacío. Campbell representa la continuación de tres generaciones de mujeres, cuya participación política deriva de su mismo posicionamiento como descendientes afrocaribeñas. Mediante la recuperación de un linaje marcado por la raza, el género y la etnia, un linaje de activismo comunitario, relaciones y redes —al cual denomino “Little’s links” en honor al legado de la escritora y activista Eulalia Bernard Little— argumento que la identidad afrocaribeña y las políticas de maternidad negra han influenciado la participación de las mujeres negras en el estado. El ejemplo de estas “otras” rutas políticas ofrece valiosas aproximaciones para comprender la presencia de mujeres negras en la política nacional, en otros contextos de la región.
