Today’s conversation is with Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez, who teaches in the Department of Africana, Puerto Rican, and Latino Studies at Hunter College, where she also serves as Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. She has published extensively in popular and scholarly venues and is the author of Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature (2020) and of the forthcoming The Survival of a People. In this conversation, we discuss the complex geographies of blackness in the Atlantic world, archival work and its relation to Black study, and the expansive historical, literary, and theoretical horizons of Black Studies.