AfroBoriqua Mothering:  Teaching/Learning Blackness in a Bay Area AfroPuerto Rican Community of Practice

Krista L Cortes

doi:10.29333/ejecs/351

Authors

Krista L Cortes UC Berkeley

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29333/ejecs/351

Keywords:

Afrolatinidad, blackness, mothering, Puerto Ricans, teaching/learning.

Abstract

This article puts forth the notion of Afroboriqua mothering to understand the types of conditions that allow communal, proleptic practices of blackness to exist within AfroPuerto Rican communities. Afroboriqua mothering is an act that occurs within a community of practice that queers how we understand mothering through activism that always centers blackness and anti-colonial Puerto Ricanness. Through participant-observation and a series of interviews with members of one AfroPuerto Rican community in Northern California, Afroboriqua mothering surfaced as a way to describe teaching and learning (or teaching/learning) within AfroLatinx multi-generational communities that centers blackness as an ancestral, cooperative, and activist practice.

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Author Biography

Krista L Cortes, UC Berkeley

Phd Candidate, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education

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