Description
A meditation on freedom-making in the academy for women scholars of color.
Author: Lorgia García Peña
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 05/31/2022
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.44d
ISBN13: 9781642597400
ISBN10: 1642597406
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Discrimination
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Hispanic American Studies
About the Author
Lorgia García Peña is a first generation Latinx Studies scholar. Dr. García Peña is the Mellon Associate Professor of Race, Colonialism and Diaspora Studies at Tufts University. She studies global Blackness, colonialism, migration and diaspora with a special focus on Black Latinidad. Dr. García Peña is the co-founder of Freedom University Georgia and of Archives of Justice (Milan-Boston). Her book The Borders of Dominicanidad (Duke University Press 2016) won the 2017 National Women's Studies Association Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize, the Isis Duarte Book Award in Haiti and Dominican Studies and the 2016 Latino/a Studies Book Award. She is the author of Translating Blackness (Duke University Press) and the co-editor of the Texas University Press Series Latinx: The Future is Now. She is a regular contributor to The Boycott Times, Asterix Journal and the North American Council on Latin America (NACLA).