Register now for a virtual talk with Dr. Lorgia García Peña
On Monday, Nov 9th, join Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry and Dr. Lorgia García Peña of Harvard University for the virtual talk, “Translating Blackness: The Vaivenes and Migrations of Black Latinidad.” Dr. Lorgia García Peña is the untenured Roy G Clouse Associate Professor of Latinx Studies at Harvard University and the co-founder of Freedom University. In this virtual talk, Dr. García Peña proposes Black Latinidad as an epistemology, as 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 homogenous 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.
Date: Nov 9th, 4-5PM MST
This event is part of the Fronteridades project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.