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Callaloo
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Schedule of Events |
6:00 PM, Wednesday, October 22, 2008
The Memorial Student Center (MSC) - Stark Gallery
THE ROAD TO BLACKNESS
A Search for Identity Within the Afro-Mexican Community
(Audio) (Photos)
by
Father Glyn Jemmott Nelson
Parish Priest, Parish of St. John of the Cross,
El Ciruelo, Pinotepa Nacional, Mexico
Welcome: Karan L. Watson, Dean of Faculties & Associate Provost
Texas A&M University
The Occassion: Charles H. Rowell, Editor of Callaloo & Professor of English
Texas A&M University
Ben Vinson III, Director, Africana Studies Center & Professor of History
Johns Hopkins University
MC: Alessandra Luiselli, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies
Texas A&M University
Q & A with Audience
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10:00-11:30 AM, Thursday, October 23, 2008
Rudder Tower - Room 302
SLAVERY AND FREEDOM IN COLONIAL MEXICO
(Audio) (Photos)
Herman L. Bennett (Rutgers University) and
Juan Manuel de la Serna (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
Respondents
Joan Bristol (George Mason University)
Patrick J. Carroll (Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi)
Nicole von Germeten (Oregon State University) and Frank "Trey" Proctor III (Denison University)
Moderated by Marco Portales (Texas A&M University)
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1:00-2:30 PM, Thursday, October 23, 2008
Rudder Tower - Room 302
"WHERE DID THE BLACKS GO?"
Post-Slavery Mexico
(Audio) (Photos)
María Elisa Velázquez (National Institute of Anthropology & History, Mexico) and
Arturo Motta (National Institute of Anthropology & History, Mexico)
Respondents
Patrick J. Carroll (Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi)
Nicole von Germeten (Oregon State University), Frank "Trey" Proctor III (Denison University),
and Marisela Jiménez Ramos (University of the Pacific)
Moderated by Henry C. Schmidt (Texas A&M University)
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6:00 PM, Thursday, October 23, 2008
The MSC - Stark Gallery
CONTEMPORARY AFRO-MEXICANS
(Audio) (Photos)
Ben Vinson III (Johns Hopkins University)
in
conversation with
Anita Gonzalez (State University of New York at New Paltz)
Laura Lewis (James Madison University), Naya Jones (University of Texas, Austin)
Jean-Philibert Mobwa Mobwa N'Djoli (National Council to Prevent Discrimination, Mexico)
Fr. Glyn Jemmott Nelson (Parish Priest, St. John of the Cross)
Bobby Vaughn (Notre Dame de Namu University)
and María Elisa Velázquez (National Institute of Anthropology & History, Mexico)
Moderated by Jóse Pablo Villalobos (Texas A&M University)
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Monday-Thursday, October 20-23, 2008
The MSC - The Flag Room
"BLACKS IN THE STATE OF VERACRUZ, MEXICO"
A Photographic Exhibition by Marcus D. Jones
(Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA)
Click here to view photos
HERMAN L. BENNETT is author of Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003). He is also an associate professor of history at Rutgers University, where he teaches courses in Latin American history and on the African Diaspora. His current book-length project, he says, “offers a social historical examination of free Afro-Mexican kinship practices in the mature and late colonial periods.” His project, in other words, “examines how the descendants of slaves became ordinary people and as such forged lives under colonialism.” Back to top
JOAN BRISTOL, Associate Professor of History at George Mason University, is author of Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches: Afro-Mexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007). She has also published a number of articles, chapters of books, and book reviews in such volumes as Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Expanding the Diaspora: Africans to Colonial Latin America, Encyclopedia of Slavery in the Americas, Journal of Social History, and Journal of the History of Sexuality. Back to top
PATRICK J. CARROLL, Professor of History at Texas A&M University (Corpus Christi), has published extensively on the African presence in Mexico in his book Blacks in Colonial Veracruz: Race, Ethnicity, and Regional Development (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001) and in such periodicals, anthologies, and references books as Latin American Research Review, African-American Civilization, Signos: Anuario de Humanidades, Africa in the Americas, Mexican Forum, Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, Boletín del Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia de México, and Comparative Studies in Society and History. For his book In the Wake of Felix Longoria: Bereavement, Culture and Politics in Post-World War II South Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003, 2005), he was awarded the 2003 Tullis Prize by the Texas State Historical Association for the best book published on Texas History. Back to top
NICOLE VON GERMETEN is author of Black Blood Brothers: Confraternties and Social Mobility for Afromexicans (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006) and of the annotated English-language translation of Alonso de Sandoval’s 1627 De Instauranda Aethiopum Salute [A Treatise on Slavery]. (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2008)]. She is professor of history at Oregon State University. Back to top
ANITA GONZALEZ, director and choreographer, teaches directing, movement, and theater history courses for the Department of Theater at the State University of New York (New Paltz), where she is an associate professor in the Department of Theatre Arts. She is author of two books: Jarocho’s Soul: Cultural Identity and Afro-Mexican Dance (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2004) and Afro-Mexico: Dancing Between Myth and Reality (in-process, University of Texas Press). Her shorter studies have been published in a number of periodicals and anthologies, including Modern Drama, Radical History Review, Dance Research Journal, The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, The Community Performance Reader (Routledge, 2007), and Latinas on Stage (Berkeley, CA: Third Woman Press, 2000). Back to top
JUAN MANUEL DE LA SERNA HERRERA is a full time investigator for the Center for Research on Latin American and Caribbean at the Autonomous University of Mexico and coordinator of the project entitled, “Africans and Afro-descendants in Mexico and the Caribbean of the 16th-19th Centuries.” He is author of numerous academic studies, including such books as Pautas de convivencia Etnica en la america latina Colonial/ Convenience Ethnic Guidelines of Colonial Latin America (2005), Iglesia y sociedad en America Latina colonial. Situaciones y proposiciones (1998), and El Caribe en la encrucijada de su historia (1994). For his work on slavery during the viceroyalty, he was awarded the 2008 Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán Prize by the Veracruz Institute of Culture. Back to top
MARCUS D. JONES is Vice President of University Affairs and Associate Professor of business law and international business at Northwestern State University (Natchitoches, Louisiana). He has also worked as an interpreter, interviewer, and photographer for the four Mexican-centered issues of Callaloo, on three of which he served as co-editor. His academic studies in business and business law have been published in a number of journals, including Journal of International Business Strategy, Encyclopedia of Mexico, Review of Business Research Journal, and International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines Proceedings. Back to top
NAYA JONES is a recent magna cum laude graduate in English and Spanish from the University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA). She is currently studying for the MA in Latin American studies at the University of Texas in Austin. Back to top
LAURA LEWIS is author of Hall of Mirrors: Power, Witchcraft and Caste in Colonial Mexico (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003), Professor of Anthropology at James Madison University (Virginia), and co-editor of Visual Anthropology Review, an organ of the American Anthropological Association and Wiley-Blackwell Press. Her reviews, articles, and book chapters have appeared in a number of journals and books, including Colonial Latin American Review, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, Colonial Latin American Sexualities, and Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Bartolomé de Las Casas. She is completing her second book, History, Race and Place in the Making of Black Mexico: An Ethnography of San Nicolás Tolentino, Guerrero. Back to top
ALESSANDRA LUISELLI is Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University, College Station, and author of three books: El sueño manierista de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (UAEM, 1993), La instrucción del Inca Titu Cusi Yupanqui (UNAM, 2001), Letras Mexicanas: Ensayos sobre escritores mexicanos de la segunda mitad del siglo veinte (UNAM, 2006). She is also one of the authors of Huellas de las literaturas hispanoamericanas (Prentice Hall-Pearson), a critical anthology of Latin American literature now in its third edition. Back to top
ARTURO MOTTA is an investigation professor of ethnology and social anthropology at the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico. His academic work, which focuses on the African community in the Mexican State of Oaxaca, has been published in numerous periodicals, including Antropología, Boletín Oficial del INAH, Dimensión Antropología. INAH, and Boletín del Archivo General de la Nación. Back to top
FR. GLYN JEMMOTT NELSON studied philosophy at the Regional Seminary of St. John Vianney and the African Martyrs in Tunapuna, Trinidad, from 1966 to 1969. He graduated with a B.A. in literature and linguistics from the University of the West Indies in St. Augustíne, Trinidad, in 1972 and with a B.A. in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 1975. From 1975 to 1977, and 1980 to 1982, he pursued biblical studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. On March 7, 1976, he was ordained as a priest. Since 1985, he has served as Parish Priest for the Parish of St. John of the Cross in El Ciruelo, Pinotepa Nacional, Mexico. Back to top
JEAN-PHILIBERT MOBWA MOBWA N'DJOLI is Assistant Director of Administrative Measures in Mexico’s National Council to Prevent Discrimination. As a public servant, he works in Mexico to construct institutions that respect individuals and groups, and that promote and defend the fundamental human and civil rights of all inhabitants of Mexico. In addition to teaching, he has also worked with educational institutions and agencies on the development of humanistic curricula at different academic levels. Back to top
MARCO PORTALES, Professor of English at Texas A&M University, is author of three books: Crowding Out Latinos (Philadelphia: Temple University, 2000), (with Rita Portales) Quality Education for Latinos & Latinas (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005), Latino Sun, Rising (Texas A&M University Press, 2005). He recently completed the manuscript for his first novel, “Vexed; What People See.” Back to top
FRANK "TREY" PROCTOR III is an assistant professor of history at Denison University of Ohio, where he teaches courses in Latin American history and modern European history, and on race and ethnicity, and slavery. His articles, book chapters, and reviews have appeared in The Americas, Expanding the Diaspora: Africans to Colonial Latin America, La Ruta de la esclavitud en África e América Latina, and Hispanic American Historical Review. He recently completed the manuscript for his first book-length study, “‘Damned Notions of Liberty’: Slavery, Culture, and Power in Colonial Mexico, 1640-1769.” Back to top
MARISELA JIMÉNEZ RAMOS is Assistant Professor of history at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Her first book-length manuscript is entitled “Black Mexico: Nineteenth-Century Discourses of Race and Nation,” which “focuses on the relationship between the ideology and discourse of racial mixture and the omission of Mexico’s Black presence from the national consciousness.” Back to top
HENRY C. SCHMIDT is author of The Roots of Lo Mexicano (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1978) and articles published in a variety of academic periodicals, including The South Atlantic Quarterly, The Americas, Revista de Sociologia Mexicana, The Library Chronicle, Mexican Studies, and Los intelectuales y el poder en México. He is an associate professor in the Department of History at Texas A&M University, College Station. Back to top
BOBBY VAUGHN is co-author (with Ben Vinson) of Afroméxico: El pulso de la población negra en México (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2004) and author of articles, essays, and reviews in Neither Enemies Nor Friends, Review of Black Political Economy, Diálogo, and Beyond Slavery. He is Associate Professor and Interim Director of the Office for Instutional Diversity at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California. Back to top
MARÍA ELISA VELÁZQUEZ is a fulltime researcher in the Direction of Ethnology and Social Anthropology at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (Mexico), where, since 1997, she coordinates a seminar on populations and cultures of African origin in Mexico. She also teaches at the Iberoamerican University. She is author of Mujeres de origen africano en la capital novohispana, siglos XVII y XVIII (México: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2006) and Juan Correa, mulato libre, maestro de pintor (México: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1998). Back to top
JÓSE PABLO VILLALOBOS is an associate professor of Spanish at Texas A&M University (College Station), where is also the Director of Graduate Studies in the Deparment of Hispanic Studies. He is author of La imaginación genealógica: Herencia y escritura en México (Colima, MX: Universidad de Colima, 2006). His teaching and research interests are Mexican literature and Mexico/U. S. border literature and culture. Back to top
BEN VINSON III is a professor of history and Director of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001), Flight: The Life of Virgil Richardson, A Tuskegee Airman in Mexico (New York: Palgrave-MacMillan Press, 2004), (with Bobby Vaughn) Afroméxico: El pulso de la población negra en México (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2005), and (with Herbert S. Klein) African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007; the Spanish-language translation published by Instituto de Estudios, 2008). He has also published numerous articles, book chapters, reviews in Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, The Journal of Negro History, Beyond Black and Red, Furezas militares en Iberoamérica, Siglos XVIII y XIX, Ethnohistory, The American Historical Review, and Pardos, mulatos y libertos, sexto encuentro de afromexicanistas. Back to top
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