#  Paul Joseph López Oro 

 

 



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Paul Joseph López Oro is a doctoral candidate in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at The University of Texas at Austin and a 2018-2020 Predoctoral Fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute of African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. His dissertation *Queering Garifuna: The Diasporic Politics of Black Indigeneity in New York City* is an ethnographic and archival study on how gender and sexuality shape the ways in which Garifuna New Yorkers of Central American descent negotiate, perform, and articulate their multiple subjectivities as Black, Indigenous, and Latinx. His work has been published in *Indigenous Interfaces: Spaces, Technology, and Social Networks in Mexico and Central America* (2019), *Afro-Latin@s in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism in the Americas* (2016), *Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography* (2016), and Small Axe Salon.

 

 

 





 

 

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