Event Highlights: Louis Chude-Sokei and Dylon Lamar Robbins
On Tuesday, November 17, the Center for Latin American Studies hosted a book discussion with Louis Chude-Sokei, Professor of English, George and Joyce Wein Chair in African American Studies, and Director of the African American Studies Program at Boston University, and Dylon Lamar Robbins, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at NYU.
Chude-Sokei presented his 2105 book, The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics, an exploration of the histories of race and technology. Robbins presented his 2019 book, Audible Geographies in Latin America: Sounds of Race and Place, an examination of ethnographic and musicological discourse through its cinematic and literary imprint. Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Associate Professor of Music and Chair, Musicology & Ethnomusicology at Boston University, facilitated the conversation.