11th October 2022 6.30pm | Community as Rebellion: Lorgia García Peña in conversation with Christienna Fryar
Join us for the London launch of Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color with author Lorgia García Peña and Christienna Fryar
Community as Rebellion offers a meditation on creating liberatory spaces for students and faculty of color within academia. Through personal experiences and analytical reflections, Lorgia invites readers—in particular Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian women—to engage in liberatory practices of boycott, abolition, and radical community-building to combat the academic world’s tokenizing and exploitative structures.
By teaching in and for freedom, we not only acknowledge the harm that the university has inflicted on our persons and our ways of knowing since its inception, but also create alternative ways to be, create, live, and succeed through our work.
Lorgia García Peña is a first generation Latinx Studies scholar. Dr. García Peña is the Mellon Associate Professor of Race, Colonialism and Diaspora Studies at Tufts University and a Casey Foundation 2021 Freedom Scholar. She studies global Blackness, colonialism, migration and diaspora with a special focus on Black Latinidad. Dr. García Peña is the co-founder of Freedom University Georgia and of Archives of Justice (Milan-Boston). Her book The Borders of Dominicanidad (Duke University Press 2016) won the 2017 National Women’s Studies Association Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize, the Isis Duarte Book Award in Haiti and Dominican Studies and the 2016 Latino/a Studies Book Award. She is the author of Translating Blackness (Duke University Press) and the co-editor of the Texas University Press Series Latinx: The Future is Now. She is a regular contributor to The Boycott Times, Asterix Journal and the North American Council on Latin America (NACLA).
Christienna Fryar is a historian of Modern Britain, the British Empire, and the Modern Caribbean. She has taught at universities in the US and the UK and is currently Lecturer in Black British History at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she convenes the MA in Black British History. In 2020, she was named a BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker and does occasional broadcast work on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. She is currently writing Entangled Lands: A Caribbean History of Britain, which will be published by Allen Lane in the UK and in the US by the University of California Press.
Join us for the London launch of Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color with author Lorgia García Peña and Christienna Fryar
Community as Rebellion offers a meditation on creating liberatory spaces for students and faculty of color within academia. Through personal experiences and analytical reflections, Lorgia invites readers—in particular Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian women—to engage in liberatory practices of boycott, abolition, and radical community-building to combat the academic world’s tokenizing and exploitative structures.
By teaching in and for freedom, we not only acknowledge the harm that the university has inflicted on our persons and our ways of knowing since its inception, but also create alternative ways to be, create, live, and succeed through our work.
Lorgia García Peña is a first generation Latinx Studies scholar. Dr. García Peña is the Mellon Associate Professor of Race, Colonialism and Diaspora Studies at Tufts University and a Casey Foundation 2021 Freedom Scholar. She studies global Blackness, colonialism, migration and diaspora with a special focus on Black Latinidad. Dr. García Peña is the co-founder of Freedom University Georgia and of Archives of Justice (Milan-Boston). Her book The Borders of Dominicanidad (Duke University Press 2016) won the 2017 National Women’s Studies Association Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize, the Isis Duarte Book Award in Haiti and Dominican Studies and the 2016 Latino/a Studies Book Award. She is the author of Translating Blackness (Duke University Press) and the co-editor of the Texas University Press Series Latinx: The Future is Now. She is a regular contributor to The Boycott Times, Asterix Journal and the North American Council on Latin America (NACLA).
Christienna Fryar is a historian of Modern Britain, the British Empire, and the Modern Caribbean. She has taught at universities in the US and the UK and is currently Lecturer in Black British History at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she convenes the MA in Black British History. In 2020, she was named a BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker and does occasional broadcast work on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. She is currently writing Entangled Lands: A Caribbean History of Britain, which will be published by Allen Lane in the UK and in the US by the University of California Press.