How can we create a model of politics that reaches beyond the nation—state, and beyond settler—colonialism, authoritarianism, and neoliberalism? In
Beyond the Pink Tide,
Macarena Gómez—Barris explores the alternatives of recent sonic, artistic, activist, visual, and embodied cultural production. By focusing on radical spaces of potential, including queer, youth, trans—feminist, Indigenous, and anticapitalist movements and artistic praxis, Gómez—Barris offers a timely call for a decolonial, transnational American Studies. She reveals the broad possibilities that emerge by refusing national borders in the Americas and by seeing and thinking beyond the frame of state—centered politics. Concrete social justice and transformation begin at the level of artistic, affective, and submerged political imaginaries—in Latin America and the United States, across South—South solidarities, and beyond.