Apr 17, 2023 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Coble Hall, Room 306
- Sponsor
- Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
- Contact
- Laura Lestani
- lestani@illinois.edu
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Paulina L. Alberto "Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina” Dr. Paulina L. Alberto Professor of African & African American Studies and History, Harvard University. Black Legend is the haunting story of an Afro-Argentine, Raúl Grigera ('el negro Raúl'), who in the early 1900s audaciously fashioned himself into an alluring Black icon of Buenos Aires' bohemian nightlife.