“What are the compartments that have been placed around how we understand slavery and genocide and its impact on our lives and the world?”
Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez
Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez is an Afro–Puerto Rican writer, teacher, and scholar. She is associate professor of Afro-diaspora studies at Michigan State University and the author of Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature (Northwestern University Press, 2020). 