The Latinx Project: Critical Latinx Indigeneities Forum, 10/13

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Tuesday, October 13, from 6 to 7.30pm

Featuring panelists Bianet Castellanos, Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera, María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Paul Joseph López Oro and moderated by Simón Ventura Trujillo.

This forum on Critical Latinx Indigeneities features scholars whose research on Indigenous Latinx cultural politics pushes the boundaries of Latinx, Latin American, Indigenous, and Black studies to provide innovative analyses of race, gender, capital, and power in the contemporary moment. Their research points to the different ways that this field is challenging settler colonial logics of Native erasure, antiblackness, and migrant precarity while advancing transnational conceptualizations of solidarity, decolonization, and Indigenous continuance.

The event will be moderated by Simón Ventura Trujillo whose new book Land Uprising reframes Indigenous land reclamation as a horizon to decolonize the settler-colonial conditions of literary, intellectual, and activist labor. Trujillo argues that land provides grounding for rethinking the connection between Native storytelling practices and Latinx racialization across overlapping colonial and nation-state forms.

Simón Ventura Trujillo is an Assistant Professor of Latina/o Studies in the English Department at New York University. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he teaches and researches on Chicana/o and Latina/o literature, Borderland methodologies, de-colonial social movements, and comparative racialization in the Americas.

Co-Sponsored by NYU Center for the Humanities and the Native Studies Forum. 

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You can find out more about The Latinx Project here.