Analyzes how identity construction and ethnic representation processes take place in a folkloric festival framed by the multicultural policies of the Colombian state. Accounts for how institutions and base Afrocolombian communities use bullerengue—a local musical tradition that is now strong in the Uraba zone—as a tool in this construction process.
Explores the representation of older women in Afro-Caribbean Canadian literature, with a particular focus on depictions of mothering. Details on lesbian identity in Afro-Caribbean Canadian women's writings are also presented.