A Question of Africa
A conversation with: Alfredo Vanin, Sergio Mosquera
Focusing on the work of writers of the African diaspora, “A Question of Africa” will bring together contemporary writers and artists to read and discuss their work and its contemporary contexts. As disparate members of a far-reaching African diaspora, each artist is invited to consider the ways in which the African continent, its countries and cities, its geographies and spatial imaginaries, its peoples—citizens and cast-offs, its histories, its sonic or visual figurations enter or inform their work and their creative process.
Sponsored by: Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean, AfroLatin@ Forum, Dominican Studies Group, Colombian Studies Group, The Consulate of the Republic of Colombia
May 6, 2014, 6:30pm
The Skylight Room (9100)
CUNY Graduate Center
Focusing on the work of writers of the African diaspora, “A Question of Africa” will bring together contemporary writers and artists to read and discuss their work and its contemporary contexts. As disparate members of a far-reaching African diaspora, each artist is invited to consider the ways in which the African continent, its countries and cities, its geographies and spatial imaginaries, its peoples—citizens and cast-offs, its histories, its sonic or visual figurations enter or inform their work and their creative process.
Sponsored by: Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean, AfroLatin@ Forum, Dominican Studies Group, Colombian Studies Group, The Consulate of the Republic of Colombia
May 6, 2014, 6:30pm
The Skylight Room (9100)
CUNY Graduate Center
Upcoming Event: Watch Your Color!
Racial Profiling and the Experience of Afro-Latin@s
Friday, May 30th, 2014
7:00pm
Trinity Lutheran Church
411 46TH Street, Brooklyn, NY 11220
With all the talk about the end of racism and that we are living in a “post-racial” society, Black and Brown people keep getting followed around in stores, refused to be picked up by cabs, and treated with suspicion and disrespect wherever they go.
Racial profiling is alive and well, and is one of the plagues of everyday life for all people of color. But while all immigrants and Latin@s may be subject to discrimination, it is clear that those who look too Black or Indigenous are much worse off, and in fact are all too often subject to racist treatment by lighter-skinned people of their own cultural background.
Afro-Latin@s are often doubly vulnerable, and should receive special attention by all those involved in the struggle for racial and social justice. Whether it’s “stop and frisk” or any of the many other ways that dark folk get singled out and targeted because of the way they look, racial equality is obviously still a long way off, a dream of the future. It is a dream that we must struggle to attain.
Join us and the distinguished panel of speakers in a lively discussion of racial profiling and how to fight it.
7:00pm
Trinity Lutheran Church
411 46TH Street, Brooklyn, NY 11220
With all the talk about the end of racism and that we are living in a “post-racial” society, Black and Brown people keep getting followed around in stores, refused to be picked up by cabs, and treated with suspicion and disrespect wherever they go.
Racial profiling is alive and well, and is one of the plagues of everyday life for all people of color. But while all immigrants and Latin@s may be subject to discrimination, it is clear that those who look too Black or Indigenous are much worse off, and in fact are all too often subject to racist treatment by lighter-skinned people of their own cultural background.
Afro-Latin@s are often doubly vulnerable, and should receive special attention by all those involved in the struggle for racial and social justice. Whether it’s “stop and frisk” or any of the many other ways that dark folk get singled out and targeted because of the way they look, racial equality is obviously still a long way off, a dream of the future. It is a dream that we must struggle to attain.
Join us and the distinguished panel of speakers in a lively discussion of racial profiling and how to fight it.
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