This program explores the factors conditioning the under-enrollment of African American and Black Diaspora students in Spanish programs at colleges and universities in the U.S., and inaugurates the launch of the first postsecondary Spanish curriculum to center and celebrate Blackness in Latin America, the result of a special HSI-HBCU collaboration funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

“Serving Black Spanish Students: An HSI-HBCU Collaboration”
Melissa Baralt, Florida International University and Amber Robinson, Florida International University

“Black language learners studying Spanish in colleges and universities”
Uju Anya, Carnegie Mellon University

“Spanish variation in the classroom”
Aris Clemons, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

“Black experiences living abroad”
Jazmine Exford, University of California, Santa Barbara

“The experience of a white-passing Hispanic professor teaching Spanish at an HBCU
Déborah Gómez, Florida Memorial University

“How a fully task-based language curriculum can be integrated in Spanish language courses”
Melissa Baralt and colleagues

Zoom link: HTTPS://GO.FIU.EDU/SPANISHINTHEBLACKDIASPORA 

Co-sponsored by FIU African and African Diaspora Studies, Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and  Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center.