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Negative Space: Regional stigma, street vendors, and the symbolic value of race in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia is an installment of the Africana Lecture Series featuring speaker Melissa Valle.

Melissa M. Valle is the Mellon Assistant Professor in Global Racial Justice in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Department of Africana Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. Her current book project Calidad: Racial Worth and Urban Change on Colombia’s Caribbean Coast, under contract with Oxford University Press, demonstrates how race becomes encoded in the value of urban space by exploring the criteria people use to determine what and who has worth, at different spatial scales, in the context of urban spatial and economic change in Cartagena, Colombia. Valle has also conducted research on Afro-descendants living in Santiago, Chile.

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