Saturday December 6, 2025 | 11:00AM-12:30PM

Stone Auditorium, 210 Woldenberg Art Center

Keynote Lecturer: Bryce Henson

Known as Black Rome, Salvador da Bahia is a predominantly Black city where the local art, food, and music are strongly associated with African roots.  Yet, many Black Brazilian residents are socially, politically, and economically marginalized. Based on ethnographic research, this talk illuminates how Black Bahian hip-hop artists and their circles contest structures of anti-Black racism by creating safe havens of rest and refuge as well as alternative social, cultural, and political systems for Black people. That is, they recreate quilombos in contemporary Brazil. This talk ends by advocating for the importance of Black studies to understanding race and racialization, media and popular culture, and freedom dreams amongst African Diasporic communities in Latin America.