Translating Blackness: A Conversation With Lorgia García-Peña and Jasmine Mitchell

Lorgia García-Peña is the director of Princeton University’s Program in Latino Studies and is affiliated with Princeton’s Department of African American Studies and its Effron Center for the Study of America. She is a writer, activist and scholar who specializes in Latino studies with a focus on Black Latinidades, the intersection of Blackness and Latinidad. She is the author of The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nations and Archives of Contradictions (Duke, 2016); Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective (Duke, 2022); and Community as Rebellion. In 2022 she received the Angela Davis Prize for Public Scholarship. In 2021 the Margaret Casey Foundation named her a Freedom Scholar, and in 2017 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology presented her a Disobedience Award for the cofounding of Freedom University. Her scholarship has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Johns Hopkins University African Diaspora Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Future of Minority Studies Fellowship, and the Mellon Foundation. She has appeared on CNN, BBC, MSNBC, Univision, and Telemundo, and is a regular contributor to NACLA and Asterix journals.

As part of her visit to campus, García-Peña will be in conversation with Associate Professor Jasmine Mitchell, Puerto Rican and Latinx Studies, in a public lecture in the Woody Tanger Auditorium and hold a private meeting with the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows.