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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: Writing Latinos, from Public Books, is a new podcast featuring interviews with Latino (a/x/e) authors discussing their books and how their writing contributes to the ever-changing conversation about the meanings of latinidad.In this episode, Lorgia GarcÃa Peña discusses her new book, Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective (Duke University Press, 2022). For a long time, Afro-Latino scholars and community organizers have argued both for their greater belonging within Black and Latinx communities in the United States and recognition of their difference from them.Conversations about Blackness within latinidad became more urgent w...