Dr. Paul Joseph López Oro
Congratulations to Teaching Central America advisor Dr. Paul Joseph López Oro on his forthcoming manuscript Indigenous Blackness: The Queer Politics of Self-Making Garifuna New York. This is a critical ethnography on how gender and sexuality shape the ways in which trans-generational Garifuna New Yorkers of Central American Caribbean descent negotiate, articulate, and perform at the intersections of their multiple subjectivities as Black, Indigenous, and Central American Caribbean Latinxs. His manuscript is under advanced book contract with Columbia University Press's book series "Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past/Present/Future". His teaching and research interests are in Black Latin American social/political movements, U.S. AfroLatinidades, Black Queer Diaspora Studies, and Black Queer Feminist hemispheric ethnographies & performances.
For more of Dr. Paul Joseph López Oro’s work:
Selected Publications
López Oro, Paul Joseph. "Black Caribs/Garifuna: Maroon Geographies of Indigenous Blackness," Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, Vol. 25, No. 3, Issue 66 (November 2021): pp. 134-146.
López Oro, Paul Joseph. "A Love Letter to Indigenous Blackness," NACLA: Report on the Americas, Vol. 53, Issue 3 (November 2021), Special Issue on Blackness and Indigeneity, pp: 248-254.
López Oro, Paul Joseph. "Garifunizando Ambas Américas: Hemispheric Entanglements of Blackness/Indigeneity/AfroLatinidad," Postmodern Culture: Journal of Interdisciplinary Thought on Contemporary Cultures, Vol. 31, No. 1 (September 2021), Special Issue on Troubling the Grounds: Global Configurations of Blackness, Nativism, & Indigeneity, pp. 1-29.
López Oro, Paul Joseph. “Refashioning Afro-Latinidad: Garifuna New Yorkers in Diaspora,” in Critical Diálogos in Latina and Latino Studies, edited by Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa. (New York: New York University Press, 2021).
López Oro, Paul Joseph. “Digitizing Ancestral Memory: Garifuna Settlement Day in the Americas and in Cyberspace,” in Indigenous Interfaces: Spaces, Technology, and Social Networks in Mexico and Central America, edited by Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar and Gloria Elizabeth Chacón. Pp: 165-179. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2019).
López Oro, Paul Joseph. “Ni de aquí, ni de allá: Garifuna Subjectivities and the Politics of Diasporic Belonging,” in Afro-Latin@s in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism in the Americas, Edited by Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, Jennifer A. Jones, and Tianna S. Paschel. Pp: 61-83. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
Lopez Oro, Paul Joseph. “Colon, Mirtha” (Honduras) and “Ramos, Tomas Vicente” (Belize), in Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Franklin K. Knight, Editors in Chief. Pp: 192-194 and 251-253. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).
López Oro, Paul Joseph. “Negotiating Blackness: West Indians and Afro-Hispanics in Panama” a review of Sonja Stephenson Watson’s The Politics of Race in Panama: Afro-Hispanic and West Indian Literary Discourses of Contention. Small Axe Salon, 19 (June 2015).
López Oro, Paul Joseph. “Preliminary Findings: ENLACE de Mujeres Negras de Honduras (ENMUNEH) Garifuna Women and their Community-Based NGO in Tela, Honduras”. LIMON, Vol. 24, Issue 1 (September 2008, University of New Mexico).
Podcast
Dr. Michele Reid-Vazquez’s Dialogues in AfroLatinidad: “Centering Garifuna in the African Diaspora” (May 4, 2022).
Alexandria Miller’s Strictly Facts: A Guide to Caribbean History and Culture and Paul Joseph López Oro, “The History of the Garifuna: Indigenous Legacies of the Caribbean” (February 23, 2022).
G. Cristina Mora, Laura Gomez, and Paul Joseph López Oro, “Fewer Latinos Identified as White on 2020 Census,” (September 22, 2021).
Paul Joseph López Oro and Karma R. Chávez, “What’s wrong with signs that say ‘Latinxs for Black Lives?’” (July 16, 2020).
Featured Articles
Silvia Foster-Frau and Rachel Hatzipanagos, “Somos Latinos,” The Washington Post, (October 7, 2021).
Rachel Hatzipanagos, “Some Afro-Latinos say the phrase “Latinos for Black Lives” makes no sense," (August 28, 2020).
Recorded Zoom Event
Paul Joseph López Oro, “Refashioning AfroLatinidad: Garifuna New Yorkers in Diaspora,” New Directions in Afro-Latinx Studies Series, Center for Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania, (November 17, 2021).