About this Event
Sharing Black Latine Stories
Black Latine stories are often overlooked due to the racial binary under which we live and the misunderstanding of just how many people of African descent could also be identified as Latine. Join us for a conversation with Boston AfroLatine leaders who will share their experiences, and we'll celebrate the release of "The Afro-Latino Memoir" by Trent Masiki.
About The Afro-Latino Memoir:
Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Masiki remedies this problem by bringing critical attention to the understudied African American influences in Afro-Latino memoirs published after the advent of the Black Arts movement. Masiki argues that these memoirs expand on the meaning of racial identity for both Latinos and African Americans. Using interpretive strategies and historical methods from literary and cultural studies, Masiki shows how Afro-Latino memoir writers often turn to the African American experience as a model for articulating their Afro-Latinidad. African American literary production, expressive culture, political ideology, and religiosity shaped Afro-Latino subjectivity more profoundly than typically imagined between the post-war and post-soul eras. Masiki recovers this neglected history by exploring how and why Black nationalism shaped Afro-Latinidad in the United States.
This book opens the border between the canons of Latino and African American literature, encouraging greater intercultural solidarities between Latinos and African Americans in the era of Black Lives Matter.
About Trent Masiki:
Trent Masiki is assistant professor of Africana Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Frugal Bookstore, 57 Warren Street, Roxbury, United States
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