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United States of America
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Primary Sources
<span>Figueroa-Vásquez, Y. C. </span>(2023). <em>The Survival of a People. </em>Duke University Press. <br /><br /><span>Figueroa-Vásquez, Y. C. </span>(2020) <em>Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature. </em>Northwestern University Press. <br /><br /><span>Figueroa, Y. (2020). After the Hurricane: Afro-Latina Decolonial Feminisms and Destierro. </span><i>Hypatia</i><span>, </span><i>35</i><span>(1), 220–229. <a target="_blank" href="https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2019.12" class="app-link app-link__text app-link--accent" data-v-63dfaf6e="" data-v-7010c528="" rel="noopener"><span class="text" data-v-63dfaf6e="">https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2019.12</span></a></span><br /><span><span><br />Figueroa-Vásquez, Y. C. (2015). </span></span>Faithful Witnessing as Practice: Decolonial Readings of “Shadows of Your Black Memory” and “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” <i>Hypatia</i>, <i>30</i>(4), 641–656. <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/24541973">http://www.jstor.org/stable/24541973</a><br /><br /><span><span>Figueroa, Y. C. (2015). </span></span>Reparation as transformation: Radical literary (re)imaginings of futurities through decolonial love.<em> Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 4</em>(1), 41-58. <a href="https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/22151">https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/22151</a>
Birthplace
New Jersey - Puerto Rico
Extra Resources
<span>Figueroa, Y. C. (2020, January 21). Afro-Boricua: Paperless People and Photo/Poetics as Resistance. <em>Post45.</em> Accessed August 18, 2025. <a href="https://post45.org/2020/01/afro-boricua-archives-paperless-people-and-photo-poetics-as-resistance/">https://post45.org/2020/01/afro-boricua-archives-paperless-people-and-photo-poetics-as-resistance/</a><br /><br />Figueroa-Vásquez, Y. C. (n.d.). <em>H</em></span><em>ome Page. </em>Accessed August 18, 2025. <a href="https://www.yomairafigueroa.com/">https://www.yomairafigueroa.com/</a>
Secondary Sources
<p><span>Méndez, X. (2015). Notes toward a decolonial feminist methodology: Revisiting the race/gender matrix. <em>Trans-scripts, 5</em>, 41–56.<br /><br />Arvin, M., Tuck, E., & Morrill, A. (2013). Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy. <i>Feminist Formations</i>, <i>25</i>(1), 8–34. <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/43860665">http://www.jstor.org/stable/43860665</a><br /><br />Machado Saez, E. (2011). Dictating Desire, Dictating Diaspora: Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Waoas Foundational Romance. <em>Contemporary Literature, 52</em>(3), 522-555. <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cli.2011.0029">https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cli.2011.0029</a><br /><br /><br /></span></p>
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Title
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Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez
African Diaspora
Afro-Latinx and Latinx Studies
Decolonial
Decolonial Feminism
Diaspora
Diaspora Studies
Literature