“Ethnography in the Interim: The Making of Minding Her Business: AfroCubana Tourism Entrepreneurs”

In 2015, Dr. Kaifa Roland began a research project on black women entrepreneurs in Cuba’s home-based tourism industry. In 2023, she signed a contract with Rutgers University Press for Minding Her Business. In the interim, a lot changed in Cuba, in the world, and in her life. The talk will attend to findings from the research at the same time that it attends to professional and methodological concerns for scholars at various stages of their careers.

Professor Kaifa Roland,
Director of Global Black Studies
Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
Clemson University