Author Junot Diaz on white supremacy, neoliberalism, writing and more
Renowned American-Dominican author, activist and professor, Junot Díaz, opened VCU’s 2017-18 Speaker Series on Sept.16 to a packed room of more than 500 people. Díaz’s work explores issues of diasporic identity, race, patriarchy and politics through the lens of Dominican-American characters in New Jersey and how those issues radiate across spectrums of race, ethnicity and gender. […]
Junot Díaz kicks off VCU’s meet the author series
Renowned Dominican-American author and activist Junot Díaz spoke on issues of identity and oppression, in addition to reading a brief excerpt from his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” on Sept. 12 at VCU’s Cabell Library. Díaz, a writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also spoke to a smaller […]