Season 3
Dr. Ariana Curtis shares her African American and Panamanian roots and how this personal journey evolved into her professional life as the Curator of Latinx Studies at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Speaker’s Social Media/Website
Twitter – @ArianaCurtis413
IG – @arianacurtis413
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Twitter – @nmaahc
IG – @nmaahc
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
Kaysha Corinealdi, Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century, Duke University Press, 2022.
Court Cases: Brown vs Board of Education (1954), Lum vs Rice (1927), Mendez vs Westminster (1947),
1898 Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery
Latinx Collection, National Museum of African American History and Culture
Professor Tanya K. Hernández discusses how her early encounters with anti-blackness growing up in New York City shaped her work as a lawyer and scholar and led to her recent book, Racial Innocence: Unmasking Anti-Black Struggle for Equality.
Speaker’s Social Media/Website
Twitter – @ProfessorTKH
Speaker’s Recent Book
Tanya K. Hernández, Racial Innocence: Unmasking Anti-Black Struggle for Equality, Beacon Press, 2022.
Tanya K. Hernández’s Additional Book Publications
Tanya K. Hernández’s Articles at the Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
Doctoral Candidate Ammy Sena describes how her early observations about the impact of racism on communities of color in the U.S. and the Dominican Republic ignited her passion for liberative mental healthcare. She also reflects on the significance of the 2022 NEH Summer Institute: Transnational Dialogues in Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx Studies.
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
Hector Y. Adames, Nayeli Y Chavez-Dueñas, Cultural Foundations and Interventions in Latino/a Mental Health: History, Theory and within Group Differences, Routledge, 2018.
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, Penguin Classics. 2019.
Sports
Anju Reejhsinghani, “Rivera, Mariano.” Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Franklin K. Knight. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Rob Ruck, Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game, Beacon Press, 2012.
Individuals/Organizations
Anthropologist Dr. Reighan Gillam shares how her university experiences fueled her passion for Afrolatinidad. Gilliam discusses the importance of complex media representations for Black people and the anti-racist power of Afro-Brazilian media. She also comments on the impact of the 2022 NEH Summer Institute: Transnational Dialogues in Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx Studies on her professional development.
Speaker’s Social Media/Website
Twitter – @reighangillam
IG – @reighangillam
Facebook- Reighan Gillam
Reighan Gillam’s Recent Book: Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership & Control in Afro-Brazilian Media, University of Illinois Press, 2022.
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
Film: Juliana Vicente, director, Cores e Botas (Colors in Boots), 2010.
Dr. Justo Planas joins the podcast to highlight his passion for bridging the gap between the Caribbean and the classroom. He discusses his research on Caribbean sex tourism in film. Through his work, he examines how stereotypes about the are created and challenged on the big screen. He also explores the significance of the 2022 NEH Summer Institute: Transnational Dialogues in Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx Studies on his teaching and research.
Speaker’s Social Media/Website
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
Erika Lorriene Williams, Sex tourism in Brazil: Ambiguous Entanglements, University of Illinois Press, 2013.
Dr. Ashley Ngozi Agbasoga discusses how her inquisitive nature motivated her ethnographic research. She argues that the Mexican state’s policies about race are not reflective of Black and Indigenous Mexicans. In addition, she explains how participating in the 2022 NEH Summer Institute: Transnational Dialogues in Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx Studies opened her mind to other research possibilities.
Speaker’s Social Media/Website
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
Scholars and Artists
Organizations
Saxophonist Dr. Benjamin Barson explores the interconnections among being a musician, historian, and political activist, which range from his work with Scientific Soul Sessions to his forthcoming book, Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons. The opening and closing background of this episode features music from his group, the Afro-Yaqui Music Collective,
Speaker’s Social Media/Website
Twitter – @benbarson5
Twitter – @afroyaquimusic
IG – @benito_baritono
Websites:
Episode Background Music Credit: “Sister Soul,” Afro-Yaqui Music Collective
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
Activists and Musicians/Music Organizations
Archives and Museums
Publications
Frances Aparicio, Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music and Puerto Rican Cultures, Wesleyan University Press, 1998.
Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Riverhead Books, 2008.
Robin D.G. Kelly, Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times, Harvard University Press, 2012.
Ingrid Monson, Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Calls Out to Jazz and Africa, Oxford University Press, 2010.
Rebecca F. Scott, Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation, Harvard University Press, 2012.
This episode features performance artist and academic Eva Margarita. A participant in the 2022 NEH Summer Institute: Transnational Dialogues in Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx Studies, Eva speaks on the transnational Black traditions and personal experiences that inform her work. She shares how her research and art are connected.
Speaker’s Social Media/Website
IG – @_eva_margarita_
Eva Margarita’s Peformances and Publications
“A Requiem for Black Grief” performed by Eva Margarita and Zuly Inirio
Central Village by Eva Margarita
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, Duke University, Press, 2016.
Michele Reid-Vazquez, Ph.D. 