Tea Talk: 'Minerva and the representation of women of color in Cuba'

Dr. Oleski Miranda Navarro will present this year's first Tea Talk: "Minerva and the representation of women of color in Cuba."

Dr.  Navarro is a visiting assistant professor of Spanish. 

In 1888 and 1889 in colonial Cuba, the journal Minerva was penned and printed by women of color, providing a unique perspective of society from the viewpoint of black women. Slavery in Cuba had only been abolished two years prior to the creation of the magazine, and its publication represents an exceptional case of female textual production in the Hispanic world.

The Tea Talks series is sponsored by the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program.

All lectures are held from 11:10 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Wednesdays in Carlsson Evald Hall in the Great Hall on the first floor.

Lectures are free and open to the public as well as the campus community. Refreshments are served.