Prisca Gayles is the Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow in Africana Studies at Williams College and a Ph.D Candidate in Latin American Studies (African Diaspora Studies and Women and Gender Studies portfolios) at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include the politicization of blackness in the context of collective action in African Diaspora with a focus on Argentina. Further interests include transnational Black Feminist theory and the solidarity economy in the African diaspora. Her dissertation project is an ethnographic study of a black social movement in Argentina. Specifically, she examines the relational processes by which movement participants and political stakeholders seek racial justice in an environment where blacks are largely invisible.