The Department of Africana Studies- Barnard College presents
FINDING LA NEGRITA: THE BLACK MADONNA AND THE LEGACY OF COSTA RICA'S AFRO-DESCENDANTS
A Reading by Professor Natasha Gordon-Chipembere in conversation with Professor Tamara J. Walker, Barnard College
Dr. Gordon-Chipembere was born in New York, and she is of Afro-Costa Rican and Panamanian parentage. She graduated from Vassar College (BA in English). She earned an MA in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and another MA in African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) in South Africa. She received her PhD in English at the University of South Africa (UNISA) in Pretoria. She has taught in colleges in the U.S. and Costa Rica, and she is currently based in Costa Rica. She has published in a number of journals, and she is a senior co-editor of the AfroLatin@ Diasporas Book Series (Palgrave: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14759).
Tamara J. Walker specializes in the history of slavery and gender in Latin America and its legacies in the modern era. She is the author of Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017 and won the 2018 Harriet Tubman Prize from the Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture. She is currently at work on two new research projects, one focused on race and visual culture in Latin America (under contract, University of Texas Press), and the other on the history of slavery and piracy in the Southern Pacific. Her teaching covers these diverse thematic areas as well, and she offers courses on topics such as Afro-Latin American Art, Afro-Latin American History and Culture, and Gender and Slavery Latin America.
Event: Webpage : https://africana.barnard.edu/events/finding-la-negritathe-black-madonna-and-legacy-costa-ricas-afro-descendants
Co-sponsors
Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW)
Barnard Organization of Soul and Solidarity (BOSS)
Columbia University IRAAS/AAAD
Barnard History Department
Barnard Mujeres
Barnard Spanish and Latin American Cultures
