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Dyckman Farmhouse: Talking About Race Matters 2025: “Genesis of Blackness in the Americas: Santo Domingo, A Passport to Black Caribbean Culture and Identity” with Dr. Lissette Acosta Corniel

Date: September 23, 2025 Time: 6pm-7pm Cost: FREE!
Join us for our upcoming virtual lecture series featuring Dr. Lissette Acosta Corniel, an associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean studies in the Department of Ethnic and Race Studies at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. She will be presenting “Genesis of Blackness in the Americas: Santo Domingo, A Passport to Black Caribbean Culture and Identity,” a conversation about the first Blacks to arrive in the Caribbean and how Santo Domingo, or La Española, played a key role as the main port of entry for the Transatlantic Slave Trade, leading to one of the largest diasporic Black communities and each with a distinct sense of belonging through adaptation, identity preservation, and identity development. Lissette Acosta Corniel’s work focuses on gender, slavery, and resistance in early colonial Hispaniola and Santo Domingo. She has published several articles and book chapters and is the editor of the book Transatlantic Bondage: Slavery and Freedom in Spain, Santo Domingo, and Puerto Rico (SUNY Press, 2024). She is working on her next book, Bad Women, Contested Freedoms: Feminist Behavior in 16th Century Hispaniola. Acosta Corniel is also interested in digital humanities. She was the research associate of the www.firstblacks.org database and is the co-creator and co-director of the faculty-student research program Black Studies Across the Americas. https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/black-studies-across-the-americas/. Talking About Race Matters is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and made possible by The Cowles Charitable Trust and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Dyckman Farmhouse: [VIRTUAL] Talking About Race Matters 2025: “Living Afro-Latina Lives: An Afrodiasporic Feminist Approach to Understanding Identity Formation and Political Consciousness” with Dr. Yalidy Matos

Date: September 25, 2025
Time: 6pm-7pm
Cost: FREE!

Registration Required? YES! Register HERE!

Location: Virtual via Zoom

Join us for DFM’s Talking About Race Matters virtual lecture series with Dr. Yalidy Matos, Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, as she presents her newest research, Living Afro-Latina Lives: An Afrodiasporic Feminist Approach to Understanding Political Consciousness.

Living Afro-Latina Lives: An Afrodiasporic Feminist Approach to Understanding Political Consciousness explores how Afro-Latinas— whether born in the U.S. or abroad but primarily residing in the United States—identify and construct their identities, and how they engage with broader identity categories. Crucially, the work traces the shift from individual identification to the development of an intersectional Afro-Latina political consciousness. This consciousness isn’t just about how they see themselves—it’s about how they act, what they believe, and how they engage politically. Rooted in Black feminist thought, this intersectional Afro-Latina political consciousness has real consequences for political attitudes and behavior. This works examines how identity becomes action, and how Afro-Latina lives illuminate the power of lived experience in shaping political life.

Yalidy Matos is Associate Professor of political science at Rutgers University – New Brunswick. Her scholarship sits at the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, and politics, immigration, and identity politics. Her book Moral and Immoral Whiteness in Immigration Politics (OUP) was published in 2023. She graduated from Ohio State University in Columbus, OH with a PhD in Political Science in 2015, and Connecticut College in New London, CT with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Gender and Women’s Studies in 2009.

Talking About Race Matters is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and made possible by The Cowles Charitable Trust and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Dyckman Farmhouse Museum – Annual Fall Festival

The Annual Fall Festival returns to Dyckman Farmhouse Museum with exciting new activities plus the family-favorites you’ve been waiting all year for:
* Unleash your inner artist with fall-inspired stop motion animations and mind-bending optical illusions! Yes, you read that right! Come create your own thaumatropes and spin your drawings to life!
* Sip on apple cider fresh from the press and crafted right before your eyes!
* Dance to LIVE MUSIC performed by your favorite local musicians!
* Enjoy some neighborly competition! Put your steady hand to the test with giant Jenga and see how long your tower can last! We’ll have plenty of lawn games out for anyone up for a challenge…

Come explore our latest contemporary exhibition by Cheyney McKnight, community altar curated by Regina Evans, and permanent collection as long as you’d like! Refreshments, snacks, and freshly popped popcorn will be available for purchase all day long.

Dyckman Farmhouse – Finding Peace: Create Loving Offerings for A Community Altar with Regina Evans

If you could send a message to an enslaved person from the past, how would you use your creativity to acknowledge the inherent humanity of their life? Would you draw them a beautiful map to freedom? Write a loving poem to sing softly into their ear? Paint a colorful picture that holds hidden symbols of care? ​

Dyckman Farmhouse Museum is honored to welcome back our 2024–2025 exhibiting artist, Regina Evans, for a community-engaged project that pays tribute to the enslaved people who once unjustly lived and labored here. Through this Community Altar, we offer a deliberate acknowledgment of their life’s journey so that they are properly honored and remembered.

Using materials provided and optional guided prompts, participants will create loving offerings— a letter, poem, or drawing—that will be placed on the Community Altar and later bound into a book by Regina Evans for public viewing. All ages welcome!

Date: Saturday, August 30th AND Saturday, September 6th

Time: 12pm-3pm

Cost: FREE!

Location: Dyckman Farmhouse Museum (on the corner of 204th and Broadway)

This program is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, through the Dutch Culture USA FUTURE 400 program of the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York.

Back Porch History 2025: “Kingsbridge at the Dawn of the Revolution” with Nick Dembowski

1775 was 250 years ago. At that time the people of Kingsbridge did not know that the most dramatic and violent 8 years in the history of the area were about to begin. The Revolutionary War would transform the neighborhood from a lush and fertile farming community into a muddy battle-scarred military camp with forts on every hilltop. For the community that was here, 1775 was the year that everything changed. The men of the area formed a militia for defense and the Continental Congress ordered the area fortified. But why here? Why did George Washington consider it a “pass of the utmost importance?” And how did local people feel about the ideas and events that were reshaping America and their lives?

On August 27th at 6:00 PM, join us for Dyckman Farmhouse Museum’s LAST Back Porch History lecture of the season featuring historian Nick Dembowski, who will take you on a virtual tour of Kingsbridge and northern Manhattan in the years before the war, leading up to the Declaration of Independence.

Nick Dembowski is a Bronx local historian and Executive Director of the Kingsbridge Historical Society. He was the lead curator of the Kingsbridge Remembers 1775-1783 exhibit at the Kingsbridge Historical Society. He is also the Site Historian of the Van Cortlandt House Museum.

Date: Wednesday, August 27th

Time: 6-7pm

Registration: Zoom registration required.

Cost: FREE!

Livestream? YES! Register using the link in our bio!

Location: Livestream via Zoom and in person at Dyckman Farmhouse Museum (on the corner of 204th and Broadway)