On this final episode for the semester, we discuss one of our favorite English language websites on Brazil, interview our fellow Tulane colleague and newly minted Fulbright scholar, Vanessa Castañeda, and we discuss our summer plans in Brazil. 


https://blackwomenofbrazil.co
https://twitter.com/citeblackwomen 




Interview Bios:

Vanessa Castañeda graduated with her bachelors in Anthropology and Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. She worked as a Spanish medical interpreter for four years for a free clinic in Kannapolis, North Carolina. She studied in Guadalajara, Mexico, for the summer of 2006 and Salvador, Brazil, for the twelve months of 2007. She completed her Masters in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University in 2014. She was the head student organizer for a two day conference entitled “Feminist Constellations: Intercultural Paradigms in the Americas.” During the summer of 2013, she obtained a Summer Tinker grant and carried out ethnographic research in Salvador, Brazil. Her Master’s thesis entitled “Traditional as Political: the Quotidian Politics of Baianas de acarajé” draws from her experience having worked with the association of Baianas de acarajé and Baiana street vendors and examines the cultural politics of AfroBahian identity. In 2013, she worked as the multi-lingual Communications intern at the International Center for Transitional Justice in New York. Vanessa is the founder of a volunteer program that teaches basic English-speaking skills to Spanish-speaking immigrants working in the restaurant industry in New York City. Her PhD project ideas will continue to examine the cultural identity politics of Baianas de acarajé in Salvador, Brazil.

Ep 4

The "A Cor Negra Podcast" seeks to :

- Create an open ended digital humanities document presenting
knowledge on the black diaspora from several perspectives. Provide
a learning resource to encourage high school and undergraduates to
pursue study in Africana/Latin American Studies

- Foreground (center) narrative, perspectives, and knowledge
production of Black women. #citeblackwomen by highlighting voices
in the field on and off campus and internationally

- Build a larger series on the Black Diaspora including projects on the Afro-Caribbean, Afro Arab, Afro Asian, Afro Latino worlds, etc..

Thank you to Dr. Luciana da Cruz Brito and Sallie Rouse for the opening speech by Lélia Gonzalez.

A Cor Negra

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