Decolonizing Black Latinidad: Garifuna New Yorkers in Diaspora

Paul Joseph López Oro, assistant professor and program director of Africana studies, Bryn Mawr College, will discuss how Black Central Americans in the United States disrupt the fixtures and tropes of AfroLatinidad by problematizing Black Indigeneity as foundational to U.S. AfroLatinidades.

López Oro is a transdisciplinary Black studies scholar whose research and teaching lie at the hemispheric intersections of Black Latin American and U.S. AfroLatinx social movements, Black queer feminisms, and Black ethnographies in the Americas. His forthcoming book, Indigenous Blackness: The Queer World-Making Politics of Garifuna Nueva York, is a critical ethnography on how gender and sexuality shape the ways in which transgenerational Garifuna New Yorkers of Central American descent negotiate, perform, and self-make their multiple subjectivities as Black/Indigenous/Caribbean AfroLatinxs.