Penn Arts & Sciences Logo
CANCELED: "New Directions in Black Studies" Lecture, "Translating Blackness," Professor Lorgia García Peña

  • Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm

Fisher Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge, Room 135


 

On April 16 at 5:30, Professor Lorgia García Peña (Professor of Latinx Studies at the Effron Center for the Study of America and the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University) will give a lecture entitled “Translating Blackness.” The lecture will be held in FBH 135.

 

Lorgia García-Peña is a writer, activist and scholar who specializes in Latinx Studies with a focus on Black Latinidades. Her work is concerned with the ways in which antiblackness and xenophobia intersect the Global North producing categories of exclusion that lead to violence and erasure. Through her writing and teaching, Dr. García Peña insists on highlighting the knowledge, cultural, social and political contributions of people who have been silenced from traditional archives. 

She is the author of award winning books, The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nations and Archives ofContradictions (Duke, 2016) which was translated and published in Spanish by Editorial Bonó in 2020; Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in GlobalPerspective (Duke, 2022) and Community asRebellion (Haymarket, 2022), translated as La comunidad como rebelión (Haymarket, 2023). Additionally, her work has been covered in several publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Boston Review and Harper’s Bazaar. She has appeared on CNN, BBC, MSNBC, Univision and Telemundo and is a regular contributor to NACLA and Asterix Journals.