Dialogues across Diasporasmakes an important contribution to the growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship on the intimate historical, political, and literary connections between two of the largest diasporic groups in the Americas and beyond - members of the African/a and Latina/o diasporas. This collection not only serves as a useful required text for Diaspora Studies courses, it offers a model for taking discussions of diasporic identities, community politics, and cultural memory beyond the classroom and into the community.

Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Diasporic Debates: Exploring the Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Migration
Chapter 1: 'Harvesting' Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Zora Neale Hurston's Literary (Dis)Articulation of Being, Myriam J.A. Chancy
Chapter 2: Not in Our Mother's Image: Ekphrasis and Challenges to Recovering Afro-Mestizaje in Contemporary Latina/Chicana Historical Fiction, Marion Rohrleitner
Chapter 3: Male Wives, Female Husbands: Immigration, Gender and Home in Calixthe Beyala's "Le Petit Prince de Belleville and Maman a un Amant", Ayo Abiétou Coly
Chapter 4: Embodied Translation: Dominant Discourse and Communication with Migrant Bodies-as-Text, Karma R. Chávez
Part 2: Diasporic Dances: Performing Language, History, and Community
Chapter 5: in tongues-the trouble inside language. Imag[e]ining presence, Olumide Popoola
Chapter 6: A Freedom Stolen, Yvette Christiansë
Chapter 7: Reading Yvette Christiansë: Reflections from a Border Scholar Activist, Kathleen Staudt
Chapter 8: Pin-Stripe Alley, Nelly Rosario
Chapter 9: A Box of Chocolates, Angie Cruz
Chapter 10: The Sun Once Again Sings to the People, Ana-Maurine Lara
Chapter 11: "Talking Tagalog" and "The Eyes Open to a Cry", Sasha Pimentel Chacón
Chapter 12: An Afro-Mestizo Tamal: Remembering a Sensory and Sacred Encounter, Meredith E. Abarca
Chapter 13: Recovering Afro-Mestiza Identities: A Borderlands Classroom, Selfa Chew
Chapter 14: Discourses of Deference: Women and Submission in the Nigerian Diaspora, Veronica Savory McComb
Chapter 15: Catherine Mary Ajizinga Chipembere of Malawi: Living an Extraordinary Life, Natasha Gordon-Chipembere
Chapter 16: luchando, rimando, sacando, pintando: Young Female Artist Collectives in Ciudad Juárez, Kerry Doyle and Gabriela Durán Barraza
Chapter 17: Constrained Activism: National Agendas versus Local Activities in Nongovernmental Organizations Serving Diasporic Women, Sarah E. Ryan and Milena Simões Murta

Marion Rohrleitner is an assistant professor of English and affiliate faculty in the Women's Studies and African American Studies Programs at the University of Texas at El Paso, where she teaches 20th and 21st century American, Chicana/o and Latina/o, Caribbean, and African diasporic literatures. Her articles, book chapters, and book reviews have appeared in American Quarterly, Antípodas: A Journal of Hispanic and Galician Studies, Callaloo, El Mundo Zurdo, Interdisciplinary Humanities, and Latino Studies. Her first book, Diasporic Bodies: Contemporary Historical Fictions and the Intimate Public Sphere, is a finalist for the ICI manuscript competition at Vanderbilt University.
Sarah E. Ryan is an empirical research librarian at the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University. She is an M.L.S. candidate at Texas Woman's University, and holds an M.A. in Interpersonal Communication, Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies, and Ph.D. in Rhetorical Criticism from Ohio University. Sarah has published extensively on the topics of good governance and community rebuilding in Rwanda, including a 2012 article in the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal entitled "Fulfilling the U.S. obligation to prevent exterminationism: A comprehensive approach to regulating hate speech and dismantling systems of genocide." She has also published in: Contemporary Argumentation & Debate, Journal of Development Communication, Journal of Public Affairs Education, Peace Review, Review of Communication, Women & Language, and in a variety of edited collections and working papers series.