“Co-conspirators in the Struggle”: Afro-Latino and African American Literary Fraternalism

“Co-conspirators in the Struggle”: Afro-Latino and African American Literary Fraternalism

Thursday, April 3rd at 5:30 PM in La Maison Salon

Speaker: Dr. Trent Masiki, Suffolk University, Author, The Afro-Latino Memoir Race, Ethnicity & Literary Interculturalism

This talk will explore Afro-Latino participation in the African American literary and cultural tradition by focusing on the personal and professional relationships that Afro-Latino and African American writers developed with each other from the 1890s to the Black Arts Movement of the 1970s. Free and open to the public.

Sponsored by The Departments of History, English, Modern and Classical Languages and Cultures, Latin and Latin American Studies, and The D’Amour College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.