Heritage 365 Speaker Series: LatinX Heritage Celebration with Deborah Paredez

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Deborah Paredez, an award-winning author and professor of creative writing and ethnic studies at Columbia University, will join the Office of Multicultural Affairs' Heritage 365 Speaker Series.

Paredez examines Black and Latinx popular culture, poetry of war and witness, feminist elegy, cultural memory, and the role of divas in American culture throughout her lectures and publications. She is best known for her critical study Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory (Duke 2009) and for the poetry collections This Side of Skin (Wings Press 2002) and Year of the Dog (BOA 2020).

Please attend the event by using the Zoom link.