Left of Black S9:E8: Decolonizing Diasporas – a Conversation with Yomaira Figueroa

Left of Black co-host Sasha Panaram (@SashaPanaram) is joined in the studio by literary scholar, Yomaira Figueroa (@DrYoFiggy). Figueroa is an Assistant Professor of Afro Diaspora Studies in the department of English and African American & African Studies program at Michigan State University. She received her PhD in the department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on 20th century U.S. Latinx, Caribbean, Afro-Latinx and Afro-Hispanic literature & culture.