We are happy to announce an exciting series led by RAICCS steering committee member,Kaysha Corinealdi, entitled, "Undisciplined: Writing & Creating Otherwise." Part of the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies Signature Speakers Series and co-sponsored by the Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies, the Department of History, and the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, these events feature scholars who have utilized a wide array of topical, narrative, digital, and stylistic approaches in their works in ways that unsettle disciplinary boundaries.
This presentation explores the creation of the largest living archive of Black Cuban oral histories by tracing our process of collecting, transcribing, and interpreting 95 interviews with Black Cubans in the United States. Drawing from our forthcoming book Alternate Black Worlds: Black Cuban Migration During Jim Crow and Beyond, we reflect on how oral history methodology can illuminate the everyday negotiations of race, migration, and belonging in 1960s and 1970s Miami. Our work also challenges the invisibility of race—especially Blackness—in Cuban, Cuban American, and Latino/a Studies, and shows how racializing Cuban migration stories and data transforms our understanding of the first waves of Cuban exiles.
Save the Dates!
Thursday, Oct. 16th (3:50-5:10pm) - Nicole Ramsey & Melanie White
Tuesday, Oct. 28th (3:50-5:10pm) - Saudi Garcia
Thursday, Nov. 13th (3:50-5:10pm) - Devyn Spence Bensonand Danielle Clealand