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Vanessa K. Valdés is a member of the following lists: Historians of the United States, American essayists and Puerto Rican writers.

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Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés is an author, educator, writer, editor, historian. For seventeen years, she was a professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the City University of New York. She is a Puerto Rican of African descent. She is the author of three books, including Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (2017). Schomburg was one of the founding fathers of Black History in North America, and the father of the Global African Diaspora. She has also written Oshun's Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas (2014). In Oshun's Daughters she examines African Diasporic sense of womanhood, examining novels, poems, etc., written by Diaspora women from the United States, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Writings that show how these women use traditional Yoruba religion as alternative models for their womanhood differing from western concepts of being a woman. With David Pullins, she is the co-author of Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velázquez (2023), which accompanied its exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from March 27 - July 16, 2023.