A discussion with three cutting edge Latina scholars working in literature, history and legal theory discussing Tanya Katerí Hernández’s newly released book, Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination.

Vanessa Valdes is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the City College of New York and author of Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg.

Nancy Mirabal, is the Director of the U.S. Latina/o Studies Program at the University of Maryland and the author of Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957.

Saudi Garcia, Ph.D. is a graduate student in Anthropology, whose research focuses on socialization, cultural heritage of second-generation immigrant youth and diaspora social theory. She was the moderator of the discussion.