Workshop: Afro-Latin@ Youth and Identity
12:00pm-1:45pm
Who is an afrolatin@? Learn about Latin@s of African descent in the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean. This workshop will explore knowledge of Afro-Latin@ identity through a series of hands-on exercises using photographs, music and group work. In addition, it will discuss strategies to encourage students to continue this dialogue in their own communities.
Who is an afrolatin@? Learn about Latin@s of African descent in the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean. This workshop will explore knowledge of Afro-Latin@ identity through a series of hands-on exercises using photographs, music and group work. In addition, it will discuss strategies to encourage students to continue this dialogue in their own communities.
Presenters
Ejima Baker-Morales is an artist and academic whose work focuses on popular culture, race, and gender. She is intensely interested in the multiplicity of black and Latin@ identities, their intersections, and the ways in which racial identities can be employed for political, economical, and cultural strength. She has a BA in Africana Studies and Music and a MA in Ethnomusicology and is working on her PhD in anthropology. A board member of the afrolatin@ forum, when she is not teaching, her days are spent reading, singing, writing and researching.
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Jadele McPherson is a performance artist, scholar, and cultural organizer. An interest in intersections among Afrodescendientes rooted in her family upbringing in Afro-American and Afro-Cuban cultures motivates her Afro-Cuban cultural arts performance projects in the Midwest and in New York. She has studied at the Instituto de Lengua y Linguisticas (Havana, 2004), Universidad de la Habana (2003) and University of the West Indies (Kingston, 2004) to research sacred and secular Afro-Caribbean performance. She is committed to Afro-Latin@ arts education, community building, and traditional arts as a healing response to trauma and division in multicultural communities.
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Yamila Sterling is a board member of the afrolatin@ forum. She is the Director of Publications at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College. Formerly the assistant program director in the South Bronx for the I Have a Dream Foundation, her expertise is in the development of youth identity, focusing on self-esteem issues and leadership skills. Currently she is developing an online magazine for AfroLatinas. She has a Bachelor of Arts in sociology and Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies from Hunter College-CUNY.
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