INTEGRATIONIST RACISM AND CONTEMPORARY ART IN PUERTO RICO IN THE WAKE OF BLACK LIVES MATTER

Mayra Santos-Febres

Poet and writer Mayra Santos Febres contextualizes the survival of Afro-Borinquen artmaking within legacies of colonialism in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, highlighting liberatory methodologies and refusals to be unseen. In 2022 Protodispatch published another exploration of cultural survivance in Puerto Rico titled Relearning the Ancient: Paths to the Indigenous land rights in Boriquén by Jorge González and Angela Brown.