Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studio by scholar and author Vanessa K. Valdes.

Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the The City College of NewYork. 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”.

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