City College Downtown: Rights Podcast - EP 21 Indigenous Peoples in the Americas, Activism, and Film with CCNY Prof. Carlos Aguasaco and NMAI's Cindy Benitez
City College Downtown: Rights Podcast - EP 21 Indigenous Peoples in the Americas, Activism, and Film with CCNY Prof. Carlos Aguasaco and NMAI's Cindy Benitez
This episode focuses on the grave human rights challenges confronted by indigenous peoples throughout the Americas, activism, and film, and more specifically the Americas Film Festival of New York (TAFFNY). It features Carlos Aguasaco, Associate Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies and Spanish and in coming department chair, at City College’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies, and Cindy Benitez, film curator and scholar specializing in Native and indigenous film and Film Program Manager for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). For further information about the annual film festival, please visit: https://www.taffny.com/