| FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2004
Welcome and Introductory Remarks
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m., Freeman
Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
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Session 1. Slavery, Race and Place
8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., Freeman
Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
Chair: Christopher Dunn (Tulane University)
Paul Lokken (Bryant College), “Angola in Amatitlán:
Sugar, African Migrants, and Ladino Origins in Seventeenth-Century
Guatemala”
Russell Lohse (University of Texas at Austin), “Cacao and
Slavery in Matina, Costa Rica, 1650-1750”
Karl Offen (University of Oklahoma), “Race and Place in Colonial
Mosquitia, 1600-1787”
Discussant: Jane Landers (Vanderbilt University)
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Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
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Session 2. Colonial Race and Mestizaje
10:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m., Freeman
Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
Chair: Susan Schroeder (Tulane University)
Ben Vinson III (Pennsylvania State University), “The ‘Forgotten
Castes’: Lobos, Moriscos, Coyotes,
and Chinos in the Colonial Mexican Caste System”
Todd Little-Siebold (College of the Atlantic), “‘Esteemed
to be a Spaniard’: The Imperial and Local Politics of Prestige”
Catherine Komisaruk (California State University, Long Beach), “Slave
Emancipation and Mestizaje in Late Colonial Guatemala”
Discussant: Christopher Lutz (Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies)
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Session 3. Postcolonial Migration and Diaspora
2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg
Art Center
Chair: Donna Bonner (Tulane University)
Darío A. Euraque (Trinity College), “Jamaican Migrants
and Settlements in Honduras, 1870s-1954”
Ronald Harpelle (Lakehead University), “‘White Zones’:
American Enclave Communities of Central America”
Lara Putnam (University of Pittsburgh), “The Rules of Race
from Place to Place: British West Indians in Central America and
Beyond, 1880-1940”
Discussant: Jane Landers (Vanderbilt University)
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Roundtable - New Books on Race and Identity
in Latin America
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m., Freeman
Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
An open forum for discussion featuring recent publications by Reid
Andrews, Herman Bennett, Dario Euraque, and Laura Lewis. |
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2004
Session 4. Mestizaje and Marginality
8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., Freeman
Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
Chair: Marilyn Miller (Tulane University)
Juliet Hooker (University of Texas at Austin), “Race-ing Citizenship/Race-ing
Space: Costeños and Nation-State Formation in Nicaragua”
Laura Lewis (James Madison University), “Memory, Migration
and Making it Home: Displacements and Dwellings on Mexico’s
Costa Chica”
Edmund Gordon (University of Texas at Austin), “Momentary
Essentialism: Red, White, and Black in Nicaragua”
Claudia Mosquera-Labbé (Universidad Nacional de Colombia),
“Reconciliación y perdón: Un punto de vista
afro-colombiano”
Discussant: George Reid Andrews (University of Pittsburgh)
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Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
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Session 5. Colonial Race and Place
10:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m., Freeman
Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
Chair: Rosanne Adderley (Tulane University)
Antonio García de León (Centro INAH Morelos), “La
línea de color: Notas sobre la población de origen
africano en los espacios rurales y urbanos de la Nueva España”
Matthew Restall (Pennsylvania State University) “Manuel’s
Worlds, Richard’s Worlds: Black Yucatan and the Colonial Caribbean”
Herman Bennett (Rutgers University), “Genealogies to a Past:
Africa, Ethnicity, and Marriage in Seventeenth-Century Mexico”
Rina Cáceres (Universidad de Costa Rica), “Omoa, detrás
de sus muros”
Discussant: Paul Lovejoy (York University)
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Session 6. Postcolonial Race, Representation
and Memory
2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Freeman
Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
Chair: Jocelyn Viterna (Tulane University)
Lowell Gudmundson (Mount Holyoke College), “What Difference
Did Color Make? Blacks in the ‘White Towns’ of Western
Nicaragua in the 1880s”
Mauricio Meléndez Obando (Universidad de Costa Rica), “El
lento ascenso de los marginados: los afrodescendientes en Costa
Rica y Nicaragua”
Justin Wolfe (Tulane University), “Mulatto Nation? Mestizo
History?: Constructions of Race and Place in Postcolonial Nicaragua”
Discussant: George Reid Andrews (University of Pittsburgh) |
