FIT Authors Talks: Meira Goldberg on Sonidos Negros

October 27 at 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Professor K. Meira Goldberg discusses her book Sonidos Negros: On the Blackness of Flamenco.

How is the politics of Blackness figured in the flamenco dancing body? What does flamenco dance tell us about the construction of race in the Atlantic world? Sonidos Negros traces how, in the span between 1492 and 1933, the vanquished Moor became Black, and how this figure, enacted in terms of a minstrelized Gitano, paradoxically came to represent Spain itself.