THE POLITICS OF BEING AND BELONGING /
BEYOND ETHNICITY & RACE IN THE AMERICAS

A Conference on Identity in Brazil, the Caribbean, and Africa

Tuesday 28 February - 3:30-5:30 pm
Wednesday 1 March 2006 - 9:30 am -12:00 noon

Newcomb Hall - Room 389

Four eminent Brazilian scholars, a leading historian of the Spanish
Caribbean, and five U.Va. faculty will discuss race, ethnicity, class,
religion, and nationality throughout the history of the Americas, with
emphasis on how Africans and their New World descendants appropriated all
these strategies in creating community under the divisive constraints of
uprooting, arbitrary sale, intrusive governments, and other challenges of
slavery and colonial rule.

Tuesday 28 February - 3:30-5:30 pm

Panel 1: Being and Belonging in Brazil and Angola

Joseph C. Miller (History) - University of Virginia
chair and commentator

Roquinaldo Amaral Ferreira (History) - University of Virginia
"Individualizing the African Diaspora: A
Microhistorical Investigation of Atlantic Cultures"

Mariza de Carvalho Soares (History) - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
"Out of Africa: The Land One Comes from and the 'Nation' One Comes up With"

Lívio Sansone (Anthropology) - Universidade Federal da Bahia
"The Roots of Race in Bahia's Recôncavo, 1850-1950"

Hebe Maria de Castro Mattos (History) - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
"The Politics of Being and Belonging: Memory of Slavery,
Historical Justice and Citizenship in Contemporary Brazil"

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Wednesday 1 March 2006 - 9:30 am -12:00 noon

Panel 2: Being and Belonging in and around the Caribbean

Melvin Butler (Music) - University of Virginia
chair and commentator

Jane Landers (History) - Vanderbilt University
"Juan Bautista Witten, Formerly Known as Big Prince:
A Study in African Identities in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions"

Brian Owensby (History) - University of Virginia
"Understandings of 'Liberty' in 17th-Century Mexico"

George Mentore (Anthropology) - University of Virginia
"Contrapuntal Authority"

Angela Figueiredo (Sociology) - Universidade Federal da Bahia
Discussant

For more information, please contact:

Scot A. French
Associate Professor/Interim Director
The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies
Minor Hall 102
P.O. Box 400162
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4262
Phone: 434-924-8889
Email: sfrench@virginia.edu