In the South Bronx, three generations of Garifuna New Yorkers of Caribbean Central American descent continue to uphold the maternal network cultivated by Garifuna migrants. Through autoethnographic vignettes, this article is grounded in the public and private spaces of the Garifuna women’s matrilineal network in the South Bronx. This workshop will discuss methods, citations, and Black feminist praxis in spaces that are both fields and homes.

Dr. Daisy E. Guzman Nunez is a Garifuna scholar from the South Bronx. As a transdisciplinary Black Studies Scholar, her teaching and research interests are on Hemispheric Blackness, Black Feminist Ethnographies and Oral histories, and Black Indigenous Feminisms. Her research and citational praxis are rooted in her work with CiteBlackWomen and Garifuna scholars across the Americas. She is working on her first book manuscript, tentatively titled Garifuna Interiorities: The Gendered Intimacies of Black Indigenous Place-Making.

Dr. Guzman Nunez received her doctorate in African and African Diaspora Studies from the University of Texas-Austin, her Master's degree from The Spanish and Portuguese Department at the University of Texas-Austin, and her bachelor's degree in Spanish and Psychology from Allegheny College. She has taught courses at the University of Texas, and the University of Virginia.

Her research has been generously funded by the Foreign Language and Areas Studies Fellowship. She was the 2023-2024 Miriam Jimenez Roman Postdoctoral Fellow for the Latinx Project, and the 2024-2025 Black and Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia.