*REPOST* Landscape and Identity in Black Amazonia
A Talk with Professor Oscar de la Torre
Thursday, March 2, 2023 · 4 - 5:30 PM
In-Person
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Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : Gallery
This event is hosted by the Department of English. The original event post is here.
Of Rocky Sheds and Water Wells that Weep Blood: Landscape and Identity in Black Amazonia
Oscar de la Torre, Associate Professor, Africana Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Dr. de la Torre researches environmental history in Brazil and the involvement of its residents in protecting land rights around the Amazon River over the past two centuries. His talk will be on ethnoterritorial land rights, haunted sites, memory, and the history of Black Quilombo slaves in Brazil.
Sponsored by the Department of English's Environment and Pedagogy Initiative and the Department of Africana Studies.
Sponsored by the Department of English's Environment and Pedagogy Initiative and the Department of Africana Studies.