"'A Strange Creature of the Night': Raúl Grigera and the Feat of Black Celebrity in 1910s Buenos Aires" by Dr. Paulina Alberto
Department: History
Date and Time: April 26, 2019 | 4:00 PM-5:30 PMEvent Location: HG 1002
Event Details
This talk is co-sponsored by LASC and the Department of History
Dr. Paulina Alberto is a historian of Afro-Latin American lives, thought, and politics as they unfolded in the aftermath of slavery, particularly in Brazil and Argentina. Her work explores the intersections of ideas of race and nation in Latin America, with a focus on how Afro-Latin Americans have shaped and contested the region's ideologies of racial inclusiveness in their ongoing struggles for recognition and equality.
She is the author of the award-winning book, Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil, University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
She is currently working on the project "Black Legend: ‘El Negro’ Raúl Grigera and Racial Storytelling in Modern Argentina" reconstructs both the life story and the legends surrounding Raúl Grigera, a popular Afro-Argentine street figure from the early twentieth century. It examines the role of “racial storytelling” in constructing whiteness and blackness in post-independence Argentina and the power of such narratives to shape individual fates.
Dr. Paulina Alberto is Associate Professor of History at University of Michigan