Paradise Lost? Anti-Blackness and Garifuna Resistance in Honduras

Christopher Loperena is a sociocultural anthropologist and assistant professor in the International Studies Department at the University of San Francisco. His research examines indigenous and black struggles for territorial autonomy in Central America, ethicality and subject formation, racialization, and the socio-spatial politics of economic development. His current book project is titled “A Fragmented Paradise: Race, Territory, and Black Autonomy on Honduras’s Emerald Coast.” 

Sponsored by the College of Humanities Academic Programming Fund, the Department of Central American Studies, and the Central American Research and Policy Institute at CSUN