Vanessa Valdés joins Mark Anthony Neal on Left of Black for S8:E18: Diasporic Blackness — The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg:

“Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studio by scholar and author Vanessa K. Valdes (@Valdes23), Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the The City College of New York. Professor Valdes is the author of Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (SUNY Press), as well as Oshun’s Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas (SUNY-Press). Professor Valdes was at Duke to deliver the lecture “Building an International Archive in the Jim Crow South: Arturo Schomburg at Fisk University”.”