Associate Professor Pablo José López Oro Presents at Yale's MacMillan Center
Associate Professor of Africana Studies Pablo José López Oro is presenting a paper as part of a panel at the conference No End in Sight: The Unwinding and Afterlife of the Cold War in Latin America being held by the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. Lopez Oro’s paper is titled Territorios Ancestrales of Indigenous Blackness: Garifuna World-Making Politics on the Caribbean Isthmus.
López Oro is currently finalizing the manuscript for his first book entitled Indigenous Blackness: The Queer Politics of Self-Making Garifuna New York, a transdisciplinary ethnographic study analyzing oral histories, performances, social media, film, literary texts and visual cultures to unearth the political, intellectual, cultural and spiritual genealogies of Garifuna women and subaltern geographies of Garifuna LGBTQ+ folks at the forefront of Garifuna transnational movements in New York City. The book will be released in Spring 2026 by Columbia University Press.
Africana Studies at Bryn Mawr
The Africana Studies Program at Bryn Mawr is an interdisciplinary program that centers the histories, politics, intellectual genealogies, and cultural traditions of Black people throughout the African Diaspora, with an emphasis on the Americas (the Caribbean, Latin America, U.S. South(s), and Global South).