Overview
Jazmine Janay Cuevas is pursuing a PhD in Africana Studies Department with a graduate minor in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She is Afro-Latinx Caucus Representative for Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Sociales, Research Associate for Diaspora Africa, and contract curator.
Research Focus
Jazmine Janay Cuevas is a Pan-Africanist whose ultimate goal is to elevate consciousness in Mexico to embrace Blackness which has historically, legally, and socially been e-raced by processes of the state by searching for Mexico's African root. She is uncovering how West African and Afro diasporic spirituality has shaped the transnational and venerated performance of Curanderismo and has started exploring how this is also informed by Arabic and Pacific voyages.
Professional Experience
Jazmine has adjuncted at the University of Texas at El Paso in the First Year Composition Program teaching classes on Hip-hop, Nation-Building, and Blackness’ contention with Latinidad. She has presented on Afrofuturism, Afro-Mexico, Afro-Chicanx Identity, African American Literature, Latinx Literature, Legal Studies, Shakespeare, and Pedagogy. She has been a fellow for the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva, RaceB4Race Social Media Fellowship, Alamo Colleges Annual Democratizing Racial Justice: Ethnic Studies Educators'
Academy, Penn States’ Cooper-DuBois Mentoring Program, and the Latino Museum Studies Program at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.