Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez
Title
Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez
Birthplace
New Jersey - Puerto Rico
Primary Sources
Figueroa-Vásquez, Y. C. (2023). The Survival of a People. Duke University Press.
Figueroa-Vásquez, Y. C. (2020) Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature. Northwestern University Press.
Figueroa, Y. (2020). After the Hurricane: Afro-Latina Decolonial Feminisms and Destierro. Hypatia, 35(1), 220–229. https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2019.12
Figueroa-Vásquez, Y. C. (2015). Faithful Witnessing as Practice: Decolonial Readings of “Shadows of Your Black Memory” and “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” Hypatia, 30(4), 641–656. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24541973
Figueroa, Y. C. (2015). Reparation as transformation: Radical literary (re)imaginings of futurities through decolonial love. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 4(1), 41-58. https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/22151
Figueroa-Vásquez, Y. C. (2020) Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature. Northwestern University Press.
Figueroa, Y. (2020). After the Hurricane: Afro-Latina Decolonial Feminisms and Destierro. Hypatia, 35(1), 220–229. https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2019.12
Figueroa-Vásquez, Y. C. (2015). Faithful Witnessing as Practice: Decolonial Readings of “Shadows of Your Black Memory” and “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” Hypatia, 30(4), 641–656. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24541973
Figueroa, Y. C. (2015). Reparation as transformation: Radical literary (re)imaginings of futurities through decolonial love. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 4(1), 41-58. https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/22151
Secondary Sources
Méndez, X. (2015). Notes toward a decolonial feminist methodology: Revisiting the race/gender matrix. Trans-scripts, 5, 41–56.
Arvin, M., Tuck, E., & Morrill, A. (2013). Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy. Feminist Formations, 25(1), 8–34. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43860665
Machado Saez, E. (2011). Dictating Desire, Dictating Diaspora: Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Waoas Foundational Romance. Contemporary Literature, 52(3), 522-555. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cli.2011.0029
Extra Resources
Figueroa, Y. C. (2020, January 21). Afro-Boricua: Paperless People and Photo/Poetics as Resistance. Post45. Accessed August 18, 2025. https://post45.org/2020/01/afro-boricua-archives-paperless-people-and-photo-poetics-as-resistance/
Figueroa-Vásquez, Y. C. (n.d.). Home Page. Accessed August 18, 2025. https://www.yomairafigueroa.com/
Figueroa-Vásquez, Y. C. (n.d.). Home Page. Accessed August 18, 2025. https://www.yomairafigueroa.com/
Collection
Citation
“Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed December 6, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/776.