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Sixteenth-Century La Española: Glimpses of the First Blacks in the Early Colonial Americas
On view from May 22, 2015-September 10, 2015 at CUNY Dominican Studies Institute
Opening Reception Friday, May 22, 2015
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
CUNY DOMINICAN STUDIES INSTITUTE
New York, NY
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El video documental, Soy Negra - Soy Negro, es una producción de la cantante Internacional Choco Orta, como parte del Descenio de la Afrodescendencia decretado por la ONU 2015-2024 y el 1er Congreso del Grupo Afrodescendencia en Puerto Rico a llevarse a cabo del 8 al 12 de noviembre 2015.
Powerful!!!!! Big ups to Kali and Joaquin doing it in PR!
Pictures from the life of Juan Flores
Carmen Joseph, a caterer and mother of eight children in Bluefields, Nicaragua, prepares potato salad as her granddaughter Britney Cash, 5, stands by. ‘Some folks don’t say they are what they are,’ she said. ‘You see, I am black, and I raised my family up knowing they were black.’ (Charles Trainor Jr./Miami Herald)
There has been a slow but dramatic shift in consciousness among blacks here(Nicaragua) and throughout Latin America. In something akin to the civil-rights movement in the United States — without the lynchings, bombings and mass arrests — blacks are pushing for more rights and reclaiming their cultural identity.
Melissa M. Valle asks important—and recurring—questions
Valle, a doctoral student at Colombia University, highlights the upcoming afrolatin@ forum taking place in New York next week, where panels will tackle everything from media to immigration and more. The program also includes a book presentation of Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America, described as “a richly revealing analysis of contemporary attitudes toward ethnicity and race in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, four of Latin America’s most populous nations.” The presentation takes place the evening of Tuesday, October 21.
In her essay, Valle wonders about what disproportionate discrimination also means for black Latinos here in the states:
In the United States, less than 3% of all Latin@s identify as racially Black. What does this mean for access to resources determined by numerical representations for millions of Latinos and Latinas of African descent?
Black Venus | Josephine Baker| 1936
Josephine Baker (1906–1975), nicknamed the “Black Venus,” shown here in a publicity photo wearing a risque two-piece costume adorned with spikes, Signed and inscribed “To Church, With lots of admiration and beaucoup de friendship, bien sincerement, Josephine Baker, New York, 1936.”
Thursday, October 23rd, 6:00pm - 9:00pm Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Plenary Conference Opening: Race Counts! Welcome
Round-table Discussion
Cultural Presentation RSVP for Thursday Night's Plenary
Friday, October 24th, 8:30am - 6:00pm Graduate Center, City University of New York 9:00am - 9:15am
9:15am - 10:45am
11:00am - 12:30pm
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Saturday, October 25th, 1:00pm - 6:00pm El Museo del Barrio 1:00pm - 2:30pm
2:30pm - 3:30pm
3:30pm - 5:00pm
4:30pm - 5:30pm
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - 6pm-9pm NYU - Department of Social and Cultural Analysis 20 Cooper Square - 4th Floor New York, NY 10003 Join the afrolatin@ forum and NYU's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis as we celebrate the publication of Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America Pigmentocracies is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary attitudes toward ethnicity and race in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, four of Latin America's most populous nations. Based on extensive, original sociological and anthropological data generated by the multi year Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA), this landmark study analyzes ethnoracial classification, inequality, and discrimination, as well as public opinion about Afro-descended and indigenous social movements and policies that foster greater social inclusiveness. A once-in-a-generation examination of contemporary ethnicity, this book promises to contribute in significant ways to policy making and public opinion in Latin America.
MORE INFO HERE
With the sponsorship of the Society for the Humanities, the Africana Studies and Research Center invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship. Applicants’ scholarship should focus on the areas of contemporary, Afro-Latin American literature and culture, history, or interpretive social sciences, with particular emphasis on popular youth culture, gender and sexuality, and/or comparative, Western hemispheric studies. Research on Afro-Latin American experiences in the United States will also be considered, especially if they are placed in extensive dialogue with similar experiences or racial formations in the rest of the hemisphere. Preference will be given to candidates who can demonstrate a solid grasp of their methodology for both research and teaching.
The fellow will be asked to teach the following two courses: (1) an introductory, undergraduate course that would describe, define, and interrogate the Black Atlantic from the perspective of Latin American literature, history, and/or popular culture so as to propose and evaluate Afro-Latin American racial formations and the specificities and commonalities they may share with their African American counterparts; and (2) a combined undergraduate and graduate-level course that focuses on the methods and theories that the postdoctoral fellow employed in his or her dissertation; in addition to the examination of the key theoretical concepts or theoreticians that influenced the dissertation, the course should also provide case studies or illustrations of methodology for student discussion and analysis.
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Rightly listed by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the best Brazilian albums in history, and possibly of all time (forgive me if my bias is showing), África Brasil is quite possibly the definitive album of Afro-Brasilian music legend Jorge Ben’s career.
A heavy mixture of samba and funk, Jorge Ben so perfectly captures the iconic sound and essence associated with the Música Popular Brasileira post-Bossa Nova cultural movement in Brasil, and also pays tribute to the various African cultures (e.g. Mozambican, Congolese and Angolan) that have greatly influenced the fabric of Brasilian culture to this day.
Songs such as Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma), Cavaleiro do Cavalo Imaculado, África Brasil (Zumbi) and Xica da Silva all reference and/or pay tribute to Afro-Brasilian historical icons and Afro-Brasilian history. Other favourites of mine include Meus filho, Meu tesouroand O Filosofo.
Probably the documentary over Afromexicans that I’ve liked the most. Its in Spanish but it talks about not just la Costa Chica (what most documentaries about Afromexicans focus on) but about African and West Indian immigrants AND Black Seminoles, something I hadn’t seen mentioned before. Its only 11 minutes long but the full documentary is supposed to be uploaded eventually.
Also its just nice to be able to share this with my mom, she’s from Durango, normally thought to be predominantly white or mestizo, but she herself is [visibly] afromestizo. I’ve read about Black Seminoles having been in Durango and Coahuila and its just nice to be able to share this with her when I know that despite facing discrimination and racism due to her hair and skin, no one ever spoke about black ancestry. Instead, it was attributed to the an indigenous (Tepehuano and Tarahumara) ancestor here or there, more specifically “Si pues tu mama esta haci de negra por que tu tia [insert diff name every time] era india..piel negra.. pera era india,” hmm.
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Quisqueya Heights: A Dialogue in Dominican Identity in The 21st century.
This event is free and open to the public. Please join in on this conversation about Dominican Identity. This will be a chance to voice your concerns, and talk about events and , organizations geared toward working in and with our communities.
#AfrxLatinidad
Red de Mujeres Afro-latinoamericanas, Afrocaribeñas y de la Diáspora, Encuentro Diaspora Afro, Where and When I Enter, the Caribbean Cultural Center & African Diaspora Institute and the Afrolatin@ Projectinvite you to attend a panel discussion
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 6-8:30 PM
"THE STATE OF BLACK WOMEN IN LATIN AMERICA"
Altagracia Balcácer Molina (Dominican Republic) Paola Yañez Inofuentes (Bolivia) Nedelka Lacayo (Honduras) Yvette Modestin, Moderator (Panama)
Opening Remarks: Dr. Marta Moreno Vega, Caribbean Cultural Center & African Diaspora Institute
FREE
WILLIAMSBURG MUSIC CENTER 367 BEDFORD AVE. @ SOUTH 6th WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN
J-M-Z Train to Marcy Ave.
Reception: Live Performance by Mai-elka Prado of the Del Sonido Collective; Poetry reading by Monica Carrillo to follow.
Come hear activists from the Network of Afro-latinamerican, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora women as they share their experiences and discuss their work to raise the visibility and improve the lives of women in their communities. It has been well documented that when women are empowered, communities prosper. They will also provide an interim report on their progress as collaborators in the MY World / World We Want 2015 campaign. With the launch of the International Decade of People of African Descent and the Sustainable Development Goals both in 2015 this will be a timely discussion.
