Racism in the Americas
Event Start Date: July 01, 2020 10:00 AM
Event End Date: July 01, 2020 12:00 PM
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Conversatorio - Racism in the Americas
July 1 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Live on our YouTube Channel!
Speakers:
Chris Busey - “No Humans Involved: Antiblackness and Education Across the Americas”
Dr. Christopher L. Busey is an assistant professor in the Teachers, Schools, and Society program in the School of Teaching and Learning at the University of Florida. He teaches courses for the Critical Studies in Race, Ethnicity, and Culture specialization. He is also affiliate faculty at the African American Studies Program and the Center for Latin American Studies where he co-coordinates the Education in the Americas Specialization. Dr. Busey’s recent research projects examine Afro-Latinx/Afro-Latin American history and citizenship education, intersections of African-American and Afro-Latin American racial thought, and the racial politics of education for Afro-descendants across the Americas.
Carmen Martínez Novo - "Paternalism, Ventriloquism and other Forms of Ritual Humiliation in the Americas"
Dr. Carmen Martinez Novo is a Professor of Latin American Studies at the UF Center for Latin American Studies. She is an anthropologist and the author of Undoing Multiculturalism: Resource Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador (In press, University of Pittsburgh Press), Who Defines Indigenous? Identities, Development, Intellectuals and the State in Northern Mexico (Rutgers 2006) as well as an edited volume, edited issues, and numerous articles and book chapters on Indigenous identities and politics in Mexico and Ecuador. She was a 2017-18 Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies among other grants. She is an Associate Editor of Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies.
Lillian Guerra - "Antiracism in Cuba is NOT Racial Equality, 1895-2020"
Dr. Lillian Guerra is the author of many scholarly articles, works of public scholarship and essays as well as four published books of history: Popular Expression and National Identity in Puerto Rico (University Press of Florida, 1998), The Myth of José Martí: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba (University of North Carolina Press, 2005), and Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption and Resistance, 1959-1971 (University of North Carolina Press, 2012). Visions of Power in Cuba received the 2014 Bryce Wood Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association, its most prestigious prize for a book on Latin America across all fields. Dr. Guerra’s fourth book, published by Yale University Press in 2018, is titled Heroes, Martyrs and Political Messiahs in Revolutionary Cuba, 1946-1958. She is currently completing a fifth book of history, Patriots and Traitors in Cuba: Political Pedagogy, Rehabilitation and Vanguard Youth, 1961-1981, under contract with Duke University Press. Beginning in August 2020 through July 2021, Professor Guerra will complete the writing of this book through the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Among recent works of public interest are Guerra's articles in NACLA, the American Historical Association's Perspectives, Newsweek in Latin America, the prestigious literary and news journal Letras Libres published in Mexico City, and most recently, The New York Times.
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