Currently a third-year PhD student at SUNY Stony Brook, I’m interested on the different ways that the African diaspora and race relations in Latin America have come intertwined with popular culture and politics at global, regional, and local levels. After obtaining my bachelor’s in history at Santiago, Chile, I worked the following five years as a history teacher and librarian at Colegio Rafael Eyzaguirre. Located in San José de Maipo, a small mountain town, this school provide me the opportunity to work with middle and high school students. At that time, I also engaged with the work of anti-racist and migratory collectives (Microsesiones Negras and Escuela Jean-Jacques Dessalines) that looked to promote racial education regarding the black experience across the American continent alongside immigrants’ rights. Alongside the exciting growth of afro studies in Chile, these experiences encourage me to study black people’s experiences in Chile in the latter half of the twentieth century. An unthinkable matter when I first came to study history a bit over ten years ago.