# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Faculty Book Launch Event - Karma Frierson
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 12 Nov, 2025 at 05:00 pm – Wed, 12 Nov, 2025 at 06:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for a launch and celebration of Assistant Professor of Black Studies Karma Frierson’s new book, Local Color: Reckoning with Blackness in the Port City of Veracruz (Duke University Press, 2025), hosted by the Frederick Douglass Institute and the Department of Black Studies in Hawkins-Carlson!

Local Color explores the racialized histories and cultural politics of Blackness in Veracruz, Mexico, offering a powerful meditation on Afro-Mexican identity, colonial legacies, and the aesthetics of resistance. Through archival research, ethnography, and visual analysis, Frierson examines how Blackness is remembered, performed, and contested in a port city shaped by transnational flows and local reckonings.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event or through our website!
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/rochester/faculty-book-launch-event-karma-frierson/200028912736817
- **Event Categories**: health-wellness, meditation
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 1

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Rochester
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: River Campus Libraries
- **lat**: 43.128548351416
- **long**: -77.628422171911
- **full address**: River Campus Libraries, 755 Library Rd, Rochester, NY 14627, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Barnes & Noble at University of Rochester (https://allevents.in/org/barnes-and-noble-at-university-of-rochester/26524304)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 12 Nov, 2025 at 05:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** River Campus Libraries, 755 Library Rd, Rochester, NY 14627, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Barnes & Noble at University of Rochester
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** health-wellness, meditation
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Faculty Book Launch Event - Karma Frierson ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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