50 Years of Hip Hop

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Hip Hop, the Language, Literacy, and Culture Program will be hosting a panel discussion about this genre of music and its impact on the culture of the Americas.

The panelists below will be moderated by Tanya Saunders, PhD, Associate Professor of the LLC Doctoral Program at UMBC.

Pablo D. Herrera Veitia, PhD is a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at University of Toronto, Scarborough. He is a scholar-practitioner working at the intersection of Orisha worship, hip hop studies and multimodal ethnography. His research explores what it means to be Afro-Cuban in post-socialist Havana.

Ana Lúcia Silva Souza, PhD is an adjunct professor at the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil. She studies linguistics, with an emphasis on literacy and race relations, working mainly on hip hop, identity, black youth, and education.

Sarah Soanirina Ohmer, PhD is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies and co-director of the Writing Across the Curriculum program at Lehman College, CUNY. Dr. Ohmer focuses on Black Feminist approaches to trauma in Black Women’s literature in Cuba, Brazil, U.S., and Colombia.

Please join us!