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Podcast: New Books in Caribbean Studies
Episode: Lorgia GarcÃa Peña, "Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective" (Duke UP, 2022)
Description: In Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective (Duke University Press, 2022), Lorgia GarcÃa Peña considers Black Latinidad in a global perspective in order to chart colonialism as an ongoing sociopolitical force. Drawing from archives and cultural productions from the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe, GarcÃa Peña argues that Black Latinidad is a social, cultural, and political formation—rather than solely a site of identity—through which we can understand both oppression and resistance. She takes up the intellectual and political genealogy of Black Latinidad in the works of Frederick Douglass, Gregorio Luperón, and Arthur Schomb...