The Latina/o Cultures Speakers Series presents

University RoomInstitute for the Arts

and HumanitiesHyde Hall

Dr. Nancy Raquel Mirabal is Associate Professor of Latina/o Studies at San Francisco State University. Mirabal has published widely on the history of Afro-diasporic communities in the United States and is currently completing a manuscript entitled Hemispheric Notions: Diaspora. Masculinity, and the Racial Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1933 (New York University Press). Her research has appeared in important anthologies as well as in Callaloo and in The Latino Studies Journal. She is a co-editor with Agustin Laó-Montes of the anthology Technofuturos: Critical Interventions In Latina/o Studies (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), which was recently honored as a Latino Studies Section “cutting edge” featured panel at the Latin American Studies Association (2009). She currently serves on the editorial advisory board for the Latino Studies Journal and Phoebe: Journal of Gender and Cultural Critique.

Sponsored by the UNC Program in Latina/o Studies, The Carolina Latina/o Collaborative, and the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History

Dr. Nancy Mirabal

6:00 pm, MondayNov. 16, 2009

City, 1945 - 1995.”

" 'Echando Pleito': El Club Cubano Inter-Americano and the Emergence of Afro-Cuban Politics and Identity in New York

City, 1945 - 1995.”

" 'Echando Pleito': El Club Cubano Inter-Americano and the Emergence of Afro-Cuban Politics and Identity in New York

book-signing to follow talk