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‘NEGRITA’ Documentary Screening with Q&A
October 15 at 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
NEGRITA, the debut documentary film from director Magdalena Albizu, interrogates the cultural prejudice and presumptions surrounding the lives of Afro-Latina women in America. Albizu, a self-described negrita, explores an unconscious ideology of anti-Blackness in which both American and Latino cultures perpetuate a false narrative of Black as undesirable otherness. Through family pictures, childhood videos, and frank conversations with family members, scholars, and Latinas, NEGRITA uses the director’s own personal history to illuminate the larger tapestry of shared experiences throughout the Black and Latino community. Hand in hand with women from the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Honduras, and Panama, Albizu and her subjects collectively confront their own Black identities, empowering themselves as Afro-Latinas.
This event is part of this year’s Civility Week activities. Find a full schedule at fitnyc.edu/civility.
This event is free and open to the public.