A Love Letter to Indigenous Blackness: Garifuna New Yorkers Hemispheric Activism" In this talk, Dr. López Oro closely examines the hemispheric activist politics of Garifuna women and LGBTQ+ folks in New York City working to preserve Black Indigenous life, culture, and history across borders and generation as part of a centuries-long lineage of resistance to anti-Blackness.
 
Dr. Paul Joseph López Oro is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Smith College and the 2021-2022 Miriam Jiménez Román Fellow at The LatinX Project at New York University. His research and teaching interests are on Black Latin American and U.S. Afro-Latinx social movements, hemispheric political mobilizations, and Black LGBTQ+ feminist activism and ethnographies. He is currently working on his first book manuscript tentatively titled Indigenous Blackness in the Américas: The Queer Politics of Self-Making Garifuna New York a transdisciplinary ethnography on how gender and sexuality shape the ways in which transgenerational Garifuna New Yorkers of Central American descent negotiate, perform, and self-make their multiple subjectivities as Black, Indigenous, and Central American Caribbeans.