Black Intersections on Migration
The Black Alliance for Just Immigration and Priority Africa Network
Invite you to:
Black Intersections on Migration
National Conversations on African, African American, Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latino Migrations to and in the U.S.
A four-part series of teleconference briefings on timely and critical analyses of migration, race, and identity.
The United Nations has declared 2011 as the “International Year for Peoples of African Descent”. Ten years ago, landmark recommendations were made at the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban South Africa. In a four-part series of teleconferences that looks at the span of Black presence in the U.S. over the centuries, we will examine the unique migration experiences of the African Diaspora within the context of U.S. history and the current debate over immigration. The series brings provocative frameworks and analyses into the discussion about race and immigration that are seldom considered.
Teleconference I
Slavery as Immigration?
Thursday, January 27, Noon Pacific, 1PM Mountain, 2PM Central & 3PM Eastern
Speaker: Rhonda Magee, Professor, University of Francisco School of Law
Ms. Magee examines the experience of the first Africans to the U.S. as an immigration experience, albeit forced migration. In a paper she wrote on the subject, she maintains the uniqueness of the experience of Africans sold in the cross-Atlantic slave trade and makes a comparative analysis of the similarities of African slavery with current forms of bondage and enforced labor.
Toll-free Dial-in (US/Canada): 1-866-931-7845 International Dial-in: 1-310-374-4949
Conference Code: 904167
Please RSVP by calling (510) 663-2254 or sending an email to teleconference@blackalliance.org
Teleconference II – Thursday, February 24: African American Migrations—The Exodus from the U.S. South
Speaker: Isabel Wilkerson, author, “Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America’s Great Migration” (Invited).
Teleconference III – Thursday, March 31: New African Immigrants—Grappling with Concepts of Race and Identity
Speaker: Jackie Copeland Carson, PhD, President Copeland-Carson and Associates and author of “Creating Africa in America: Translocal Identity in an Emerging World City”.
Teleconference IV – Thursday, April 28: The Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latino Migrations to the U.S.
Speaker: Janvieve Williams Comrie, Executive Director, Latin American and Caribbean Community Center
All briefings are at Noon Pacific, 1PM Mountain, 2PM Central & 3PM Eastern
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