Event

AfroLatin@s Now: Race Counts!

Fri, Oct 24, 2014

9:00 AM

C-Level

The AfroLatin@ Forum is pleased to present Afro-Latin@s Now: Race Counts!, a three-day international conference to be held October 23–25, 2014, in New York City. This gathering will provide a unique opportunity to examine the structural and ideological barriers to full Afro-Latin@ representation and discuss opportunities for positive social change.

Throughout the Americas, Afro-Latin@s are subject to severe systemic invisibility at all levels of society, in public and private institutions and agencies as well as in the general discourse on race and ethnicity. In Latin America, African descendants are well over a third of the total population and 50% of those living in poverty. In the U.S., where “Black” and “Latin@” are commonly represented as being mutually exclusive, less than 3% of all Latin@s identify as racially Black. This glaring disconnect between lived experience and formal documentation has resulted in vastly unequal access to healthcare, education, housing, employment, and political representation for millions of Latinos and Latinas of African descent.

Afro-Latin@s Now: Race Counts! will provide a unique opportunity for us to examine and discuss the structural and ideological barriers to full Afro-Latin@ identity, visibility and representation. By consolidating networks, advancing common educational and advocacy agendas and charting out strategies for future collaborative work we will identify opportunities for positive social change and racial justice.

Registration is required. Visit the AfroLatin@ Forum website for registration, the full program and conference details: www.afrolatinoforum.org.

Follow the conference on Social Media #RaceCounts2014

Conference Schedule

Thursday, October 23rd, 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Plenary Conference Opening: Race Counts!
Welcome

Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Miriam Jiménez Román, Director, afrolatin@ forum
Juan Flores, Chair, afrolatin@ forum

Round-table Discussion

Pedro Noguera, New York University

Tanya K. Hernández, Fordham University School of Law
Thomas LaVeist, professor of Public Heath and Director, Center for Health Disparities Solutions at Johns Hopkins University
Tianna Paschel, assistant professor of political science, University of Chicago
Rolando Roebuck, community activist, Washington, DC

Cultural Presentation

Friday, October 24th, 9:00am – 6:30pm
Graduate Center, City University of New York Concourse Level

9:00-9:15am

Arrival and registration

9:15am – 10:45am Concurrent Workshops

In and Out of Focus: Media and AfroLatin@ Representation

AfroLatin@s in the Classroom: Youth, Education and Culture

11:00am – 12:30pm Concurrent Workshops

Looking Suspicious: The Racialization of Crime

Taking Measures: AfroLatin@s and Economic Inequities

12:30pm – 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm – 3:00pm Concurrent Workshops

¿Y nosotros qué?: Acknowledging the AfroLatin@ Immigrant

AfroLatin@s and Health Disparities: When Both Race and Ethnicity Matter

3:00pm – 3:30pm

Break

3:30pm – 5:00pm

Plenary: Connecting Stories: The Practice of Racial Dialogues

5:15pm – 6:45pm

Closing Plenary: Identity, Visibility and Representation: The Role of the Census

Saturday, October 25th, 1:00pm – 6:00pm
El Museo del Barrio
1:00- 2:30 pm

Panel: Recounting the Afrolatin@ Artist Experience – Past, Present, & Future

2:30-3:30pm

Workshops

3:30-4:30

Performance

4:30- 5:30

Reception

The conference is generously supported by grants from the New York Council for the Humanities and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Co-Sponsored by the Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC), Institute for the study of the African Diaspora and the Caribbean (IRADAC), and the Dominican Studies Group at the Graduate Center