The NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis presents Black Women in Motion: Race Gender and Migration on film, a monthly series exploring how Black women navigate displacement globally. This Thursday, BWIM presents a screening of Hasta La Raíz directed by Juan Carlos González Díaz and discussion with Ana María Belique (Reconoci.do) and Lou Cornum (NYU).
Imagine that the country where you were born and raised suddenly tells you that you do not belong there. Hasta La Raíz is the story of Ana, Deisy, and Virtudes, three women who face this reality in the Dominican Republic following the denationalization of Dominicans of Haitian descent in 2013. While parts of Dominican society reject them due to their parents' origins, others join their political struggle and embrace their journey to reconnect with their roots.
Free and open to the public.
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📍 Cantor Film Center
About the Discussants
ANA MARÍA BELIQUE is co-founder and leader of Reconoci.do, a movement which mobilizes and empowers Dominicans of Haitian descent and campaigns for equality and citizenship rights. Her activism centers around the fight to restore the right to nationality for Dominicans of Haitian descent impacted by the Dominican Constitutional Court’s 168-13 ruling, as well as promoting the empowerment of the population of Dominicans of Haitian descent residing in bateyes in the Dominican Republic. She is the author of the children’s book La muñeca de Dieula (Dieula’s Doll). She has also coordinated the publication of two books, Nos Cambió la Vida (They Changed Our Life) and Somos quién Somos (We Are Who We Are), which document the histories of Reconocido members. Belique earned a master’s degree in Latin American and Caribbean studies at NYU and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of South Florida.
LOU CORNUM is Assistant Professor of Native American Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU and a founding editorial collective member of Pinko Magazine. Their research interests broadly encompass Critical Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Cultural Studies with particular attention to Native American literature and politics.They are currently working on a book project tentatively titled Lunar Landings: Critical Indigenous Studies and the Colonization of Space. Cornum holds a Ph.D. in English from the City University of New York Graduate Center, an M.A. from the University of British Columbia, and a B.A. from Columbia University. They are an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation.