OUR MISSION
Enhance Diasporic Literacies
Amefrica Press’ mission is to challenge the boundaries of language and geography as a way of embracing Black Diversity. We are a press that connects the Afro-Americas through translation. The name Améfrica Press is inspired by the work of the Brazilian Black Feminist scholar and activist Lélia Gonzalez. Gonzalez developed the term Améfrica Ladina, to show how the lives and experiences of African and Indigenous peoples are foundational to the histories and cultures of the Americas.
OUR HISTORY
Améfrica Press Founder, Publisher, and Editor-In-Chief, Tanya L. Saunders, Ph.D., a native of Baltimore, MD is
a Black writer, scholar, and educator. They founded Améfrica Press in 2021 to address the challenges that Black folks, in our diversity, faced in regards to publishing across language and geopolitical boundaries. The lack of diversity in publishing as it pertains to translation across the Améfricas (the Afro-Americas), is based on the notion that our stories, histories and intellectual thought were of no general interest or had no literary or intellectual merit. Dr. S decided that they could do something about that.
“The Press Publishes work that reflects the diversity of Black experiences across the Diaspora.”
