Afro-Latin America: Historical, Cultural and Artistic Representations
Afro-Latin America: Historical, Cultural and Artistic Representations
In recognition of the United Nations’ 2011 International Year of Afro-Descendants, CLAS is sponsoring a series of events focused on Afro-Latin America. This fall, CLAS joined the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in welcoming as Visiting Resource Professor Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, whose work symbolically follows the African Diaspora from her family’s origin in Nigeria to Cuba and Boston. Her art was featured in exhibits at the Frist and the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery.
On February 2-4, 2012, New Sources for the Study of Slave Societies an international conference to launch the Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies (ESSSS) Digital Archive Project and Website will be held on the Vanderbilt Campus. The conference will showcase Vanderbilt’s impressive investments in Black Atlantic and African Diaspora in Latin America.Read more here. All events are free an open to the public.
February 2, 2012 Lecture by Professor María Elisa Velázquez, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México. ”Africans and Afrodescendant women in Mexico City during Colonial times: Social Relationships and Cultural Reproduction”.
http://investigadoresinah.org.mx/maria-elisa-velazquez-medalla-gonzalo-aguirre-beltran/
Other events focused on African-descended people in Latin America included brown bag talks by Professors Tony Brown and Wendy Hunter on race and inequality in Brazil, a lecture by Professor Karl Mosma on black cowboys in Brazil, and teacher workshops.
A video on first Afro deputy in the Bolivian government
http://www.un.org/en/events/iypad2011/index.shtml United Nations webpage on Year of the Afro Descendientes
http://www.afrodescendientes-undp.org/index.php?lang=en Afro Descendant Populations of Latin America
UN_International_Year_for_People_of_African_Descent_2011_Resolution
UN announces “A Decade for Peoples of African Descent” – News Clip by Manuel Barcia, University of Leeds, The Huffington Post, 5 February 2012 . Read more here
The Latest from LAPOP
This Insights report addresses the question of whether educational attainment, a key indicator of socioeconomic status, is related to skin color in Latin America and the Caribbean. Based on data from the 2010 AmericasBarometer, our analysis shows that persons with lighter skin color tend to have higher levels of schooling than those with dark skin color throughout the region, with few exceptions. Moreover, these differences are statistically significant in most cases and, as we show in a test of several multiracial countries, the negative relation between skin color and educational attainment occurs independently of class origin and other variables known to affect socioeconomic status. Thus, we find that skin color, a central measure of race, is an important source of social stratification throughout the Americas today.
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