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African Diasporic Countervisualities

Discussion featuring La Vaughn Belle, Dixa Ramírez, and Vanessa K. Valdés, moderated by Tina Campt

This panel challenges the overproduction of certain images of Caribbean men, women, and children that have allowed for dominant, often nationalist, narratives from the region. Instead, each speaker reveals how the subjects of the archives from which they draw exhibit their own agency in confronting those chronicles. Speaking about the Danish West Indies / the US Virgin Islands (La Vaughn Belle), the Dominican Republic (Dixa Ramírez), and the Puerto Rican community in New York (Vanessa K. Valdés), the panel highlights inconvenient histories previously ignored, erased, silenced, ghosted.

Recorded on February 11, 2019 at Barnard College. Co-sponsored by the Barnard Center for Research on Women, the Columbia Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality and the Practicing Refusal Working Group.

Additional information is available at https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/african-diasporic-countervisualities/

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