Lecture – Translating Blackness: 'The Vaivenes and Migrations of Black Latinidad'

When: November 09, 2020 4:00pm to 5:00pm

In this virtual talk, Dr. García Peña proposes Black Latinidad as an epistemology – a way of understanding and producing knowledge from the site of unbelonging from "the unfinished project of emancipation." Black Latinidad is described not as an embodied identity nor a social construct, but as point of entry and set of methods that allows us to go beyond concepts of homogeneous racial and citizenship exclusion. It denaturalizes the nation as a site of belonging and invites us instead to learn and know from a productive detour, both away from and in contradiction to the colonial order that sustains national notions of citizenship and belonging. 

Dr. Lorgia García Peña is the untenured Roy G. Clouse Associate Professor of Latinx Studies at Harvard University and the cofounder of Freedom University. 

Registration for this virtual event is required. This event is hosted by Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry as part of the Fronteridades project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 


Audience: All
Audience size: Medium (51-100)

Where

Campus: Virtual

Address

United States
US

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Contacts

Leona Davis Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry

Requests for disability-related accommodations should be directed to the event's primary contact: Leona Davis