Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés is the director of the Black Studies Program at The City College of New York-CUNY. A graduate of Yale and Vanderbilt Universities, and an Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, her research interests focus on the cultural production of peoples of African descent throughout the Americas: the United States and Latin America, including the Caribbean and Brazil. Dr. Valdés is the editor of The Future Is Now: A New Look at African Diaspora Studies (2012) and Let Spirit Speak! Cultural Journeys through the African Diaspora (2012). She is the author of Oshun's Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas (2014) and Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (2017). She is the series editor of the Afro-Latinx Futures series at SUNY Press.
Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (Albany: SUNY Press, 2017)
Oshun's Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas (Albany: SUNY Press, 2014)
ed. Let Spirit Speak! Cultural Journeys through the African Diaspora (Albany: SUNY Press, 2012)
ed., The Future Is Now: A New Look at African Diaspora Studies (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012)