IPRH hosts Tianna S. Paschel on October 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the IPRH Lecture Hall, Levis Faculty Center, Fourth Floor (919 West Illinois Street, Urbana). Black mobilization in Latin America has long been cast as a story of absence, either because of the presumed lack of salience of race in the everyday realities of Latin Americans, or because of false consciousness. In this presentation, Prof. Tianna S. Paschel (African American Studies and Sociology, University of California–Berkeley) will examine the nature and outcomes of black mobilization in 20th century Latin America, and suggest that while black movements across the region have made important symbolic and material gains over the last decades, these gains have acted as catalysts for the rise of reactionary movements and the receding of Latin America’s so-called pink tide.
Thanks to the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities for this information item (co-sponsored by the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies).