Erika Denise Edwards PhD

Roles:
Author, Section Editor

Editorial groups:
Associate Editors

Affiliation:
History, University of Texas at El Paso

Country:
United States

Biography

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Dr. Erika Denise Edwards is an Associate Professor of Latin American History at UT at El Paso. She received her PhD from Florida International University in Atlantic History with concentrations in Latin America and Pre-colonial Atlantic Africa. Edwards's research advocates for re-learning Argentina's black past and the origins of anti-blackness. She is the author of the award-winning book, Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic, which is a gendered analysis of black erasure and the construction of race in Argentina. She is currently working on her next book project Her Presence Insults Me: A Family History of Race-Making in Argentina. Edwards has been interviewed and consulted by Buenos Aires Times, BBC, National Public Radio (NPR), The Atlanta Black Star, The New York Times, World Bank, The Guardian, and Telemundo, and profiled in AskMeAnything, The Guardian, New York Review of Books, and Fox News.