Guest Speakers & Lectures
Afro-Tradition, Environmental Racism and Black Place-Making in Mexico
This video is a Q&A with filmmaker Ebony Bailey about her documentary "Jamaica and Tamarindo: Afro-Tradition in the Heart of Mexico," followed by the panel discussion, “Environmental Racism, Gender, and Black Place-Making in Mexico's Costa Chica,” with Ebony...
Guest Lecture: Blaxican Borderlands with Dr. Rebecca Romo
Dr, Rebecca Romo, professor of sociology at Santa Monica College visited CSUN. She did a short presentation titled "Blaxican Borderlands," and then she answered questions from the group. February 19, 2021Related Articles
Guest Speaker: Afro-Latinx Identity with Edlin Veras
Doctoral student Edlin Veras speaks with CSUN students about the study he and his mentor, Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, conducted on the dissonance faced by Afro-Latinx people. Their study is titled, “Out of the Shadows, Into the Dark: Ethnoracial Dissonance and...
Slave Refugees in the U.S.- Mexico Borderlands
Lunch Plática with Dr. Manuel Galván. Starting in the early seventeenth century, Africans enslaved in the English North American colonies found opportunities for a less oppressive existence in Spanish Florida, where the Spanish established alliances with indigenous...
NAHJ: Addressing Anti-Blackness & Anti-Indigenous Racism in the Latinx Community
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists held its virtual conference over the summer that included conversations, events, networking and more. In this replay, speakers Indhira Suero Acosta, Juan Carlos Lopez and Ecleen Luzmila Caraballo address anti-Blackness...
Miriam Jiménez Román, Afro-Latinx activist, dies at 69
Late Miriam Jiménez Román was a major figure in the current Afro-Latinx studies movement. This article explains what she did in her lifetime as well as what she worked on with her late husband, Juan Flores.Related Articles