Paul Joseph López Oro
He/Him
plopezoro@brynmawr.eduAssistant Professor & Program Director of Africana Studies
Black Indigeneity on/off the Central American isthmus; U.S. Black Central American hemispheric migrations
Bryn Mawr College
Brooklyn
Dr. Paul Joseph Lopez Oro is a transdisciplinary Black Studies scholars whose teaching and research interests lie at the intersections of Black Indigeneity, Black Central American diasporas, Black Queer world making politics, Black feminist ethnographies, and the political project of hemispheric Blackness. He is currently working on his first book manuscript tentatively entitled "Indigenous Blackness: The Queer World Making Politics of Garifuna Nueva Yol'" a critical ethnography on the transgenerational migrations, articulations, and self-fashioning that Garifuna New Yorkers of Central American Caribbean descent engage with at the intersections of their multiple subjectivities as Black/Indigenous/AfroLatinx.
