Beyond the Brown Paper Bag Test: Panel Part 1

Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute and Dwyer Cultural Center

Present

5th Annual Redefining African American Conference
Beyond the Brown Paper Bag Test: De-constructing Black and Brown

The objective of this program is to motivate and influence an international dialogue that will examine the global need to develop thinking, terminology, programs and actions that will unite African descendants in a collaborative manner.

The 5th Annual Re-Defining African American Conference, will deconstruct the meaning of Black and Brown, by examining the complexities within each color identification and the underlying culture and history surrounding both.

FEATURING:

Screening of: Memoirs of A Black Latina Written, Directed and Produced by Crystal Roman

And Beyond the Brown Paper Bag Test: De-constructing Black and Brown Panel Discussion

Panelists:
Dr. Yaba Blay: Ghanaian-born-American whose research focuses on the body politics of women of African descent, with particular specialization in global skin color politics. Her most recent research project investigates skin bleaching among Ghanaians.

Rosa Clemente: Afro-Boricua Hip Hop Activist, journalist, and 2008 Green Party Vice Presidential candidate. She is currently teaching at Lehman College.

Rogelio Pineda: Caribbean researcher and writer who has focused on the African Diasporic experience using a comparative approach regarding the issues of lost African identities, colonial/slave identities and post-colonial identities, linguistic, economic and historical underpinnings.

Moderator:
Shantrelle P. Lewis Director of Programming and Exhibitions at CCCADI

For more information please call 212.307.7420 ext. 3008

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Dr. Martha Moreno Vega
• Shantrelle P. Lewis
• Rosa Clemente
• Rogelio Pineda
• Dr. Yaba Blay
• Crystal Roman
• Dennis Flores

[SoulFaerie]

thank you for recording and posting this and making this available to people elsewhere in the united states and around the world.

[4lifeKid]

@tammy1ize i feel bad for you because you either extremely bored or horribly hateful ....either way no one thinks like that, get out of the 1930s