CLACS Lecture Series. Dr. Paulina L. Alberto
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
- Location
- Coble Hall, Room 306
- Date
- Apr 17, 2023 3:30 - 4:30 pm
- Contact
- Laura Lestani
- lestani@illinois.edu
- Views
- 8
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.