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Episode 2: Solidarities, Activism, and Ethnic StudiesIn this episode of Dialogues in Afrolatinidad Dr. Eddie Bonilla, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Latinx Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, chats with our host Dr. Michele Reid-Vazquez on solidarities within different Ethnic U.S activist movements. Dr. Bonilla speaks about his journey from southern California to academia in Pittsburgh, the evolving field of ethnic studies and what drew him towards this field, Marxism as a foundation for ethnic movements, and Anti-Blackness in the Latino community.
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Episode 1: Brazil, Black Women, Gender Equity and EducationIn the first episode of Dialogues in Afrolatinidad our host, Dr. Michele Reid-Vazquez, chats with Dr. Kia Lilly Caldwell, a social-cultural Anthropologist and professor of African American and African Diaspora studies at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill who speaks on her work creating scholarship to bring awareness to marginalized communities. Topics focused around the African Diaspora, the experiences of the Black Population in Brazil, and producing scholarship on teaching about the African Diaspora that can be used in classroom settings are touched upon in this episode.
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Michele Reid-VazquezDr. Reid-Vazquez is an Endowed Chair of Race, Rascism and Racial Justice, and E. Frederick Morrow Associate Professor of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and Africana Studies at Bowdoin College. Her research and teaching specializations are the African Diaspora in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Atlantic World, and Afro-Latinx History in the U.S., with an emphasis on slavery and freedom, race and gender relations, politics, migration, identity, and digital humanities.
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Dialogues in Afrolatinidad PodcastDialogues in Afrolatinidad explores history, culture, and contemporary issues in Afro-Latin America and U.S.-Afro-Latinx communities. The podcast features interviews with scholars, writers, educators, artists, and community leaders who share their passion for Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx Studies, the significance of their intellectual, creative, or community engagement, and resources for learning more.