This roundtable discusses the special issue "Media narratives of insurgencies, resistance, and anti-racism in Latin America and the Caribbean" that Camila Daniel, Meyby Ugueto-Ponce, and Sharún Gonzales Matute have recently edited for Conexión. Focusing on collective action in Latin America's African Diaspora, these scholar-activists explore the numerous ways Black women mobilize resistance against racism in Brazil, Venezuela, and Peru. They will be in conversation with Monica Rojas-Stewart, assistant director of African Studies/LACS and founder of the DE CAJóN Project and MÁS – Movimiento Afrolatino Seattle.

Camila Daniel is an activist-artist-researcher in Anthropology. She is currently a visiting Professor at Institute of Latin American Studies/Columbia University. She is also a professor at Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro. In 2019, Camila was a Fulbright visiting researcher at New York University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS). Her work focus on inter-ethnic/racial anti-racism, Black feminism, art-activism,  and immigration in the Americas. She is part of Aguasalá Danzas Afrolatinas, a feminist dance collective. 

Sharún Gonzales Matute is a professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru. She holds a master's degree in Political Science and a master's degree in Latin American Studies by University of South Florida. Her research includes issues of representation in the mass media and the political representation of Afro-Peruvian women. She has been active in civil society organizations in Peru and the United States. She has also worked as a consultant for international organizations.

Meyby Ugueto-Ponce is Afro-Venezuelan, from Caracas, and descendant of free black peoples of Curiepe and La Sabana. She is a researcher and militant in the areas of Afro-diasporic political identities in colonial and postcolonial contexts, and their articulation with religion, the body, food, and social memory. She is also an interpreter, teacher, and researcher of Venezuelan traditional dance. Ugueto-Ponce directs the project "Trama Danza", Collective for Research and Promotion of Afrodiasporic Dances. She is an activist in “Trenzas Insurgentes,” a collective of Black, Afro-Venezuelan, and Afro-descendant women.