Dr. Erika Edwards: "Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic"

Dr. Erika Edwards, associate professor in history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, will discuss her book Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic (Alabama UP, 2020).

A short presentation about the book will be followed by a Q and A session and general conversation. This event will be held over Zoom. Registration is required.

Dr. Edwards is an expert of the black experience in Argentina. She has been interviewed and consulted by The New York Times, National Geographic, and La Voz del Interior. 

This talk is part of a series on Gender, Race, and Slavery in the Atlantic World, presented by the History and Gender Workshop, and funded by a Faculty Research Seminar Grant from the University of Georgia’s Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.