Contextualizing Absolutamente Negro/a/x: A conversation

Wednesday, October 18th @ 6:30pm

The Creative Justice Initiative, in collaboration with the afrolatin@ forum, will launch a conversation series titled "The Practice of Freedom Conversation Series: Absolutamente Negro/a/x - Absolutely Black" in November 2023. This series will explore specific topics on race, representation, and power in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and how they affect Afro-Latins, and African descendents in Latin America and the Caribbean. Each conversation will highlight Afro-Latin and Afro-descendent thinkers and cultural workers, and will take place in institutional spaces that have supported Afro-descendent people.

The event "Contextualizing Absolutamente Negro/a/x" will serve as an introduction to the series and will explore why the conversation series is important now, why we still need to address the Blackness of Afro-Latin and Afro-descendents in Latin America and the Caribbean, and how we can continue to support anti-racist struggles throughout the region and beyond. Hosted by Janel Martinez, with Dr. Marta Moreno Vega, Rafaela Uribe, Josue Perea and others.

This conversation series will provide a space for Afro-Latinx and Afro-descendants from the Americas and the Caribbean to share their experiences and perspectives on race, representation, and power. It will also help to raise awareness of the challenges faced by Afro-descendants in the United States, Latin American and the Caribbean, and promote anti-racist dialogue and action.