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Blackness in Latin America and Beyond - 2022 Student Leadership Conference

April 05, 2022 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés and the students from the Black Student Union present Blackness in Latin America and Beyond, a dialogue on the Black experience throughout the Americas.  This session is hosted in collaboration with the Committee on Institutional Equity and Diversity.

Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés is the Interim Dean of the Macaulay Honors College at CUNY for the 2021-2022 academic year. She is the former director of the Black Studies Program at The City College of New York-CUNY. A graduate of Yale and Vanderbilt Universities, and a Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, her research interests focus on the cultural production of Black peoples throughout the Americas: the United States and Latin America, including Brazil, and the Caribbean. She is the editor of The Future Is Now: A New Look at African Diaspora Studies (2012) and Let Spirit Speak! Cultural Journeys through the African Diaspora (2012). She is the author of Oshun's Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas (2014) and Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (2017). Her latest book, Racialized Visions: Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean (2020) is an edited collection that re-centers Haiti in the disciplines of Caribbean, and more broadly, Latin American Studies.

The Student Leadership Conference runs April 5-8, with sessions each day. The full listing of events can be found below:

The first 100 students who attend at least one conference session will be eligible to receive a special gift. If you are interested, you can submit your address information when you register for each session. Please note that we cannot ship any items to PO boxes or outside of the United States.