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Item Afro-Latinx Resistance & Reclamation: The Arts Across Diaspora(2022) Alderete-Cruz, GabriellaThis exhibit focuses on the interplay between U.S. Latinx/ Latin American / Caribbean scholarly and artistic formations from the poetics of belonging to transnational configurations of Afro-Latinidad. Yomaira Figueroa, in Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature, examines the ways in which Afro-Latinx Caribbean writings and cultural productions remain overlooked, particularly under the U.S. framework of Latinidad, which continues to center whiteness and anti-Black discourse. Figueroa theorizes on remapping Afro-Diaspora studies by centering Afro-Latinx art and literature and considers how these strategies subvert historical erasure and offers frameworks of resistance. Through showcasing Afro-Latinx visual and literary texts, this exhibit aims to illuminate the contributions of decolonizing projects and shows that the Afro-Latinx diaspora is not relegated to the homogenous representation replicated in mainstream Latinx cultural productions.Item Young, gifted and Black : journey through/to a PhD in white-ass Austin, Texas(2017-05) De Oliveira Pereira, Amanda Caroline; Arroyo, JossiannaYoung, “Gifted” and Black: Journey To a PhD in Whiteopia is a “Biomythical”¹ play that focuses on daily experiences in the life of a Black Brazilian woman named Semente. Semente is a 23-year-old pursuing a PhD in Black Studies at The University of Whiteopia (UW). New to this strange land and institution, Semente recounts her experiences of moving through spaces that perpetuate and create new forms of systematic oppression as a person marked as “object” and “abject”. Depicting moments of both subjugation² and fugitivity³. YGB provides a glimpse into the everyday realities and “colored contradictions” of Black life in the wake of the “new-neo-liberal” landscape of late and post-Obama hipster-gentrified US cities. This play deals with issues of gender, sexuality, race, migration, capitalism and many other themes that emerge from a Euroheteropatriarchial society.