October 14, 2010: Nancy Raquel Mirabel, "Enchando Pleito: El Club Inter-Americano and the Emergence of Afro-Cubanidaddes in New York City, 1933-1995

The U.S. Latina/o Studies Program presentsLatina/o Heritage Month Keynote Talk byDr. Nancy Raquel MirabalThursday, October 14, 20103:30 - 5:30 p.m.Maryland Room (Marie Mount Hall)Reception following TalkPrintable PDF

Dr. Nancy Raquel Mirabal is Associate Professor of Latina/o Studies at San Francisco State University. She earned a Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and has been a César E. Chávez Dissertation Fellow at Dartmouth College, Chancellor Post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Ethnic Studies at U.C. Berkeley, International Migration Post-doctoral Fellow at the Social Science Research Council, and Fellow at the Advanced Summer Oral History Institute, Regional Oral History Office, U.C. Berkeley. Dr. Mirabal has directed, consulted, and collaborated on various community oral history projects, including “La Misión, Voices of Resistance: A Community Oral History of Gentrification in the Mission District and its Impact on Latina/os” and “Los Veteranos Project: A Community Oral History of Mission District Activists, 1960-1980s.” She has co-edited Technofuturos: Critical Interventions in Latina/o Studies (2007) and published widely on the history of Afro-diasporic communities in the United States. Her publications include “Melba Alvarado, El Club Cubano Inter-Americano, and the Creation of Afro-Cubanidades in New York City” (2010); “Displaced Geographies:  Latina/os, Oral History, and the Politics of Gentrification in San Francisco’s Mission District” (2009); “Dyasporic Appetites and Longings: An Interview with Edwidge Danticat” (2007). Her forthcoming book, titled Hemispheric Notions: Diaspora, Masculinity, and the Racial Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1933, will be published by the New York University Press.

Sponsored by the U.S. Latina/o Studies Program, Department of American Studies, and Department of Spanish and Portuguese.  
This event is free and open to the general public. For more information, please contact Maria Vargas at mvargas5@umd.edu