The Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program presents: 50 Years of Hip Hop
Exploring Its Impact in the Americas
Location
Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : Gallery
Date & Time
November 18, 2024, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Description
Pablo D. Herrera Veitia, PhD is a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at University of Toronto, Scarborough. He is a scholar-practitioner working at the intersection of Orisha worship, hip hop studies and multimodal ethnography. His research explores what it means to be Afro-Cuban in post-socialist Havana.
Ana Lúcia Silva Souza, PhD is an adjunct professor at the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil. She studies linguistics, with an emphasis on literacy and race relations, working mainly on hip hop, identity, black youth, and education.
Sarah Soanirina Ohmer, PhD is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies and co-director of the Writing Across the Curriculum program at Lehman College, CUNY. Dr. Ohmer focuses on Black Feminist approaches to trauma in Black Women’s literature in Cuba, Brazil, U.S., and Colombia.