“Foreign” Black Women: Confronting Xenophobic Antiblackness Globally
Lorgia García Peña
Join us Thursday, October 8th for a conversation with scholar and author Dr. Lorgia García-Peña on the ways in which antiblackness and xenophobia intersect the Global North producing categories of exclusion that lead to violence and erasure.
Dr. Lorgia García-Peña, Nave Visiting Scholar, is a writer, activist and scholar who specializes in Latinx Studies with a focus on Black Latinidades. She is the author of several award-winning books, including The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nations and Archives of Contradictions (Duke, 2016); Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective (Duke, 2022) and Community as Rebellion (Haymarket, 2022), translated as La comunidad como rebelión (Haymarket, 2023). An engaged scholar committed to liberating education and bridging the gaps that separate the communities she comes from (Black, immigrant, working) and the university, Dr. García Peña is also a co-founder of Freedom University Georgia, a school that provides college instruction to undocumented students and the co-director of Archives of Justice a transnational digital archive project that centers the life of people who identify as Black, queer and migrant. Her work has earned numerous honors, including the Angela Davis Prize for Public Scholarship and MIT’s Disobedience Award.
García-Peña received a PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an M.A. in Latin American and Latino Literatures from Rutgers University
This event is organized by The Havens Wright Center for Justice and presented in collaboration with the Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies Program (CLS)and the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS) at UW-Madison and with generous support from CLS and LACIS.