Roosbelinda Cárdenas is Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies and Anthropology at Hampshire College.  Her current book project is entitled Raising Two Fists: Struggles for Black Citizenship in Colombia. Raising Two Fists is a historically grounded ethnographic study of Afro-Colombian political mobilization after the multicultural turn that swept Latin America in the 1990s.Dr. Cárdenas teaching and research focuses on identity and rights for Afro-descendants in Latin America and social theory of race and racism, social movements, place and displacement, and human rights. She takes an engaged ethnographic approach to teaching and is particularly interested in the intersections of knowledge production and activism.