El libro EN MI CELDA: ESCRITOS DESDE LA CÁRCEL (Editora Educación Emergente, 2023) presenta por primera vez al público hispanohablante una cuidada recopilación de diversos textos y materiales de archivo del anarquista, intelectual y revolucionario afropuertorriqueño y afrodiaspórico MARTIN SOSTRE. Especialmente en lo que respecta a la filosofía, el estudio y la lucha negra y … Continued
Join us at CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies to learn from María del Mar Rosa-Rodríguez, an associate professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) at Cayey, and the president of the faculty union of the UPR, Asociación Puertorriqueña de Profesores Universitarios (APPU). She is also the cofounder of the … Continued
Vulnerable communities enact sovereignties that decenter the state while strengthening relationships on which survival depends. This panel will delve into such radical praxis through a closer look at archiving and the Archivo Histórico de Vieques. The AHV is a community archive born out of the struggle against the U.S. Navy’s occupation of Vieques, Puerto Rico … Continued
November is Puerto Rican Heritage Month! Celebrate the impact that the Puerto Rican LGBTQ community has made on New York City over the past 80 years, with a special focus on social life, activism, and the arts in the 1990s. Activist Charles Rice-González, co-founder of Gay Men of the Bronx (GMoB) and the Bronx Academy … Continued
November is Puerto Rican Heritage Month! Celebrate the impact that the Puerto Rican LGBTQ community has made on New York City over the past 80 years, with a special focus on social life, activism, and the arts in the 1990s. Activist Charles Rice-González, co-founder of Gay Men of the Bronx (GMoB) and the Bronx Academy … Continued
Join Dr. Elena Martinez (Modern Languages and Comparative Literature, Baruch College) and Dr. Rojo Robles (Black and Latino Studies, Baruch College) for a discussion on the “Black Gaze” as a critical and political act of spectatorship. Often theorized within the context of African American cinema, the Black Gaze challenges the whiteness of mainstream media, fostering … Continued
Join us for a Women’s History Month Community Event hosted by Baruch’s Black and Latino Studies Department with filmmaker Rosamary Berríos Hernández in conversation with Dr. Margarita Rosa, Visiting Assistant Professor of BLS, and Dr. Rojo Robles, Assistant Professor at BLS and curator of the Roots and Tides film festival. Rosamary Berríos Hernández’s film Santiago … Continued
Celebrating the release of Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art: A Critical Anthology, The Latinx Project hosts a special artist panel on Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 20 Cooper Square featuring artists Candida Alvarez, David Antonio Cruz and Maria Dominguez with moderator Adriana Zavala. Book editors Yasmin Ramirez and Arlene Dávila will offer an introduction.