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Join us for a conversation with author Dr. Natasha Gordon-Chipembere as she discusses her new book, Finding La Negrita.

Finding La Negrita is a captivating retelling of the Black Madonna narrative, which has driven Costa Rica’s national and spiritual identity since the 1700s. Written with powerful prose, Natasha delivers a unique and intimate nature of Costa Rican slavery which was radically different than plantation slavery in other parts of the Americas. A provocative, first-of-its-kind perspective on a free Black community during the colonial period in Costa Rica, Finding La Negrita spans time and space as it captures their grapples with love and legacy, secrets and sacrifices, and the line between freedom and enslavement.

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Natasha Gordon-Chipembere, Ph.D., is a professor of African Diasporic literature. She is the author of Representation and Black Womanhood: The Legacy of Sarah Baartman (Palgrave), and her writing has been published in Essence Magazine and in Tico Times as the monthly series “Musings from An Afro-Costa Rican.” She is a senior co-editor with Dr. Eduardo Paulino of the AfroLatin@ Diasporas book series from Palgrave, where they prioritize the voices of emerging Afro-Latin@ scholars. Her current writing focuses on slavery and the legacy of Afro-descendants in Latin America.