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Lorgia García-Peña

Lorgia García-Peña is a public scholar and writer. Her work focuses on Black Latinidad, migration, and diaspora. She is the cofounder of Freedom University Georgia and of Mind the Gap: Archives of Justice. Currently, she teaches Latinx Studies at Harvard University. García-Peña is the author of multiple award–winning book The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nations and Archives of Contradictions  and the forthcoming Translating Blackness: The Vaivén and Detours of Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective.  

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Race

Decolonizing the University

In this interview, Lorgia García-Peña, who was denied tenure by Harvard in late 2019, discusses why ethnic studies has never been more urgent and the important role it can play in protest.

Lorgia García-Peña, Mordecai Lyon

       

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