Sponsored by W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Department of African and African American Studies, Committee on African Studies, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Division of Arts and Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Division of Social Science, Faculty of Arts & Sciences
SCHEDULE
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5:30-6:00 p.m. Registration
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6:00-7:30 p.m. Reception and special preview of Elizabeth Catlett exhibit in the Rudenstine Gallery
- 9:00-9:30 a.m. Opening remarks by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Caroline Elkins, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Merilee Grindle, and Jorge Dominguez
- 9:30-11:30 a.m. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Juan Rodriguez, “Anti-Haitianism in the Construction of Dominican Identity”
Franklin Franco Pichardo (presented by Ana C. Franco), “El racismo, las migraciones y los problemas de la identidad nacional en República Dominicana”
Frank Moya Pons, “A Mulatto Nation: Notes on the Racial Evolution of the Dominican People”
Silvio Torres-Saillant, “The Faces of Blackness in the Modern World”
Moderator: George Reid Andrews
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11:30 a.m.-noon Break
- Noon-1:30 p.m. MEXICO
Sagrario Cruz-Carretero, “Distortion and Invisibility of Afro-Mexicans”
Mark Q. Sawyer, "Racist Imagery in Mexican Popular Culture"
María Elisa Velázquez, “Africans and African Descendants in Mexico: Understanding Past and Present”
Moderator: Ben Vinson III
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1:30-2:30 p.m. Break
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2:30-4:00 p.m. CUBA
Miguel Barnet, “El tema racial en la sociedad cubana actual, una interpretación atendiendo a su letra y espíritu”
Marial Iglesias Utset, “De Jérémie al Cobre: una familia de colonos de Saint-Domingue, sus esclavos y sus descendientes, entre la revolución de Haití y la guerra de 1912 en Cuba”
Tomas Fernández Robaina, “Aproximación histórica y contemporánea a la lucha contra la discriminación”
Moderator: Jorge I. Dominguez
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4:00-4:30 p.m. Break
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4:30-6:00 p.m. BRAZIL
Wlamyra Albuquerque, “O lugar de cada um: A abolição e a cidadania da ‘raça emancipada’ no Brasil”
Junia Ferreira Furtado, “The Freed Black and Mulatto People in the Brazilian Diamond Society (18th Century)”
João José Reis, “Slavery from the Bottom Up in the Historiography of Brazil”
Moderators: Linda Heywood and John Thornton
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6:00-6:15 p.m. Closing remarks: Herbert S. Klein
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6:30-7:30 p.m. Reception for participants and audience
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street (map)
- 9:00-11:00 a.m. PERU
Carlos Aguirre, “Nicomedes Santa Cruz: The Making of a Public Intellectual in Twentieth-Century Peru”
Maribel Arrelucea Barrantes, “Raza, cuerpo y sexo en las pinturas de Pancho Fierro”
José “Cheche” Campos Dávila, “La Tigritud una Opción Valedera para la Nación Peruana”
Monica Carrillo Zegarra, “Entre el Noble Savage y el Black Face: representaciones de afrodescendientes en el Perú en las industrias culturales y medios de comunicación”
Moderator: Herbert S. Klein
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11:00-11:30 a.m. Coffee break
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11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. HAITI
Rachel Beauvoir-Dominique, “The Significance of the Bois Caïman Ceremony”
Suzy Castor, TBA
Laurent Dubois, “Channeling Boukman: Race and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth Century Haiti”
Moderator: Michel DeGraff
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1:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch
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2:00-3:30 p.m. ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: RACE IN LATIN AMERICA I
Juan Manuel de la Serna, Ada Ferrer, Juliet Hooker, Paula Moreno Zapata, Alfonso Muñera Cavadia, Rebecca J. Scott
Moderator: J. Lorand Matory
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3:30-4:00 p.m. Coffee break
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4:00-5:30 p.m. ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: RACE IN LATIN AMERICA II
Herman R. Bennett, Glenda R. Carpio, Frank André Guridy, Mark Q. Sawyer, James H. Sweet, Edward E. Telles
Moderator: Doris Sommer
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5:30-5:45 p.m. Closing remarks: Franklin Knight
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5:45-6:00 p.m. Screening of Black in Latin America trailer and closing remarks: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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6:00-7:00 p.m. Reception for participants and audience with performance by Kuumba Singers