Bienvenidas, Bienvenidos, Bienvenides!
Our fifth season is dedicated to celebrating the voices, stories, and experiences of Latinx people. Our aim is to offer space for conversation, to register the nuances and complexities within the Latinx overlapping diasporas, recognizing that there is no singular narrative but instead an array of voices that deserve to be heard.
In this episoe we discuss with author and scholar Dr. Amina Gautier from our Afro-Latinidades series at Baruch. This conversation was recorded on November 30, 2022, with support from the Black and Latino Studies Department and BRESI (the Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Initiative). This was a conversation between the author and student leaders in my then Special Topic Class: Afro-Latinidades (the class is now part of the BLS course offering). Shout out to Sandy Paulino, Yuddy Fermin, Jonas Reyes, and Isabella Bonilla for developing the questions based on our class discussions. This student-centered course examined African-descended populations in Latin America and Afro-Latinxs in the United States. Throughout the semester, we explored questions of Black identity and representation, colonialism, resistance to slavery and its afterlives, transnationalism, Pan-Africanism, and diaspora.
We first introduce Dr. Gautier and provide some background on her. This is followed with a partial reading of one of her short stories, “Feliz Navidad.” After this, we share the questions originally posed by the students, editing and paraphrasing for conciseness. We then wrap up with some story recommendations within Dr. Gautier’s book Now We Will Be Happy and a brief conversation about how her work resonates thematically with our classes and the podcast itself.
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Hosts: Rojo Robles and Rebecca L. Salois
Logo Design: Marcos Toledo
Music: Shawn P. Russell
Sound Consultant and Mixing: Shawn P. Russell
Recording and Editing: Rebecca L. Salois
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