The Latina/o Cultures Speakers Series Presents: “Navigating Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas” with Theresa Delgadillo

Theresa Delgadillo will discuss an excerpt from her new book, Geographies of Relation, that examines the cinematic, performance, and recording career of Black Mexican singer and actress Toña La Negra to illuminate the ways in which her work contested anti-Blackness, revealed interrelationships of African-descended Latinx and mestizx peoples in Mexico and beyond in the twentieth century, and contributed to struggles for freedom.

Theresa Delgadillo is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of English and Chican@ and Latin@ Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Spiritual Mestizaje: Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative (Duke 2011), Latina Lives in Milwaukee (University of Illinois Press, 2015), numerous chapters, and articles in the journals Aztlán, American Literary History, American Quarterly, Midwest Miscellany, Latino Studies. She co-edited (and contributed to) the volume Building Sustainable Worlds: Latinx Placemaking in the Midwest (University of Illinois Press, 2022). Formerly a member of the Executive Committee for the Chicana/o Literature Division of the MLA, she is currently co-editor of the online academic publication Latinx Talk.

This talk will be virtual, over Zoom. Click HERE to register.