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Free College for future Black male teachers

goddessDi — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:33:33 GMT

Black Male Teachers

Do you know any Black males who are seniors in high school who want to go to college out of state for FREE? Several Black Colleges are looking for future black male teachers and will send them to universities/colleges for 4 years FREE.
The 'Call Me MISTER' program is an effort to address the critical shortage of African American male teachers particularly among South Carolina's lowest performing public schools. Program participants are selected from among under-served, socio-economically disadvantaged and educationally at-risk communities.

The program is a collaboration between Clemson University and four historically black co lleges in South Carolina : Benedict Coll ege , Claflin University , Morris College and South Carolina State University .

The project provides:

7 Tuition for admitted students pursuing approved programs of study at participating colleges.
7 An academic support system to help assure their success.
7 A cohort system for social and cultural support.

Visit <http://www.callmemister.clemson.edu/index.htm> for more details and the online application or call (800) 640-2657.

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The bible is your history..

Swift — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:30:02 GMT

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3aTGcv6eFyM

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miami herald article: afro-latin americans

Yosenio — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:42:46 GMT

http://www.miamiherald.com/multimedia/news/afrolatin/index.html

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Demand each Congressional Black Caucus member take a public stand not to "dance with the devil" (the Fox News Network)

torrid_wind — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:35:48 GMT

Peace be upon you:

Last Thursday, the Congressional Black Caucus Institute announced plans to partner with Fox News to host presidential debates--using the name and legacy of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) to legitimize an organization that has shown nothing but hostility to Black Americans. The Institute's leaders made this decision after ignoring more than 12,000 emails protesting the plan, and despite almost 800 phone calls to individual CBC members asking them to use their positions to speak out against the deal with Fox.

The CBC and CBCI are betraying Black America, not just in the partnership with Fox, but by willfully ignoring the people they claim to represent. It's a unacceptable display of irresponsible representation and disconnected leadership.

I've joined ColorOfChange.org's campaign to demand that members of the CBC stop hiding and lead with integrity. We've seen that the CBC thinks it can ignore us, so we're going to need as many voices as possible to keep up the pressure. Will you join me?

http://www.colorofchange.org/cbci_stance/?id=2420-162474

ColorOfChange.org's campaign has two goals: to force the CBC Institute to call off the Fox debates and to make it clear that Black elected leaders cannot act in our names while ignoring our voices.

The first step is targeting members of the CBC. We know that some members of the CBC oppose a partnership with Fox, but none have spoken publicly. Their silence implies agreement and lends credibility to the Institute's decision. If we can force each member to publicly take a stand on this issue, we're confident some will come out against the partnership. Once there's dissention in the ranks, the Institute's leadership will not be able to maintain the legitimacy of their decision.

But getting there won't be easy. CBC offices have given those of us called the runaround for weeks--saying the Fox debates are an Institute issue that they can do nothing about and then referring folks to a CBC Institute voicemail box that was full for over two weeks. Members are clearly not trying to go on the record about this issue. But with enough pressure, they will have to speak; and if they continue to hide, we will broadcast their cowardice to Black America and voters in their district.

The pressure is already mounting. Following the lead of ColorOfChange.org members, Black bloggers, academics, and community newspapers have all taken bold stands. Now it's up to us. If we keep up the pressure and speak out in greater and greater numbers, we can force voices of reason and conscience to arise from within the CBC, and help bring the CBC back in line with Black America. Please join me.

I added the following note to my signature to the online petition: "The Fox "News" Channel is not a legitimate news organization, but a mouthpiece of Republican, conservative viewpoints created (and owned/operated) by Rupert Murdoch. Why is the Congressional Black Caucus determined to dance with the devil by agreeing to partner with Fox News to host presidential debates. What good can come of this? Surely there are other options. I urge you to select a network not hostile to the interests of Black Americans."

http://www.colorofchange.org/cbci_stance/?id=2420-162474

Thanks.

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Find The Illegal Immigrant

SHOCKA — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:51:01 GMT

In what it says is an attempt to get students to debate the issue of illegal immigration, a student Republican club at New York University has planned a novel game that some on campus are calling racist.
The College Republicans have scheduled "Find the Illegal Immigrant" for Thursday. In the game, members of the club who present their NYU identification become immigration agents looking for an illegal in the crowd. The agent who successfully identifies the illegal immigrant will reportedly win a gift certificate.

Many students have sent club officials E-mails against the event, calling it racist and disgusting. But the club says it is hoping to spark debate on the topic of illegal immigrants.

"It's not a racist event, first and foremost," said Sarah Chambers, the 21-year-old president of the College Republicans. "Just because we don't want illegal immigrants being able to completely disregard the laws of our country doesn't make us racist."

Some students say they will protest the event.

New York University spokesman John Beckman says administrators have no intention of taking any action to prevent or disrupt the game, in the name of academic freedom.

But some officials are skeptical of the group's motives, suggesting they seemed intent on generating more heat than light.

In an email message to Eyewitness News, Beckman wrote: "Our inclination is always to support free speech. Just as one group of students will conduct this so-called 'game,' others will be protesting it. At a university, this is exactly the kind of outcome we hope for from engaged students and scholars."

But Beckman clearly suggested that the administration doesn't necessarily approve of the exercise.

"At universities, providing a forum for the exchange of ideas, even difficult and unpopular ideas, is a key mission," Beckman wrote. "We hope the debates will be conducted with respect and civility, and will be driven by an impulse to provoke thought rather than anger. Illegal immigration is a totally appropriate topic for debate, though this event seems principally calculated to produce outraged reaction rather than dialogue."

(Copyright 2007 WABC-TV)

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Belize? ...rooots?....

DjBlondie — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:26:54 GMT

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone here, per chance, knew about which part of Africa the Africans present in Belize (formerly British Honduras, in Central America next to mexico/guatemala) are from? or at least, east, west, africa, etc? we're looking for some roots, trying to piece together some of my husband's scattered history as a creole man.

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Musical Riot! A Call and Response

Yosenio — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:03:46 GMT

EVENT Title: Musical Riot! A Call and Response
Hosted by Jerry Gant, Performances by Maurice Chesnut, Dancer, Shaka
Zulu Overdrive, Nadine LaFond of Swampedelica

Saturday, February 3, 2007
3:00 pm - 9:00 pm
EVENT Title: Black Renegade Remix: Spirits and Rebels
3:00 pm Film Screening Quilombo Country: Afro-Brazilian
Villages in the Twenty-First Century with Chuck D by Leonard Abrams (73
mins)

No other film currently in release addresses these communities
and illustrates all of these important Afro Brazilian contributions to
Brazilian and world culture.

Narrated by Chuck D, the legendary poet, scholar, media commentator and
front man of the iconic hip hop band
Public Enemy. http://www.quilombofilm.com/

4:30 pm Conversation, Slide and Artist Talk
Black Renegade Remix: Spirits, Rebels and Sex

Artists explore what it means to engage outsider" people,
ideas, traditions, forms and identities in their art practice and
community work.

These artists radically (re) define Home in the way they
reveal these cultures that are traditionally kept secret or hidden to
heal themselves, community and innovate art practice.
Participants: Wura Ogunji and sdnICHOLAS.

5:30 Break

6:30 Afro Punk by James Spooner
66-minute documentary that explores race identity within the punk scene.

7:45 Reception and Sound
Design by Lowell Craig spinning African Diaspora
beats, forms and sounds.

EXHIBITION INFORMATION:

Newark, NJ January 22, 2007- Gallery Aferro and REBORN proudly
present a two level multimedia group exhibition of 22 contemporary
artists and changemakers of African descent and those influenced by the
forms, traditions and history of the African Diaspora. Spanning more
than 11 countries these artists of the Caribbean, South America, Europe
and West Africa claim Home in a post -Civil Rights Movement era by
gathering, re-imagining and dreaming a deeper connected community albeit
complex - together.

Black Rock engages sight, sound, mind, and heart through art, music,
film and video, community panels and interactive workshops. It is an
explosive cultural exhibition of artists and cultural activists whose
work innovate cultural forms to engage our most challenging fears and
greatest visions of living as individuals within community of Home -
the self, local community, nation and world.

Black Rock features three large - scale installations including a life
size Black comics installation, a home being uprooted by its roots and
a vinyl record temple.

The second floor features two video projections and a gift shop.
Organized by independent artists/curators, Noelle
Lorraine Williams and Kevin Darmanie.

Black Rock is their fourth community-based exhibition featuring the work
of emerging and established contemporary artists examining our deepest
individual fears and greatest visions of living in community. Please
visit www.rebornhome .com for complete schedule and information.

The twentieth century revealed a tense relationship between the artist
of African descent and relevance of culture in their art practice.
Sometimes celebrated, often disdained but mainly debated this
exhibition illustrates that one can have a conversation within and
about Home and still be in the realm of the imaginary, the truthful the
visionary," stated Noelle Lorraine Williams (REBORN).

Gallery Aferro is located at 73 Market Street in downtown Newark. For
directions visit our website at www.aferro.org or
www.rebornhome .com. The Gallery is open Wednesday 12:00-4:00 PM,
Thursday and Friday 4:00 - 8:00 PM and Saturday 11:00 - 6:00.

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Mass. politics

SHOCKA — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:23:19 GMT

The Boston Gllobe reports that Richard Chacón has become new Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's director of policy and cabinet affairs, working directly with cabinet members to oversee his policy initiatives. Chacón, 41, had been deputy campaign manager/communications director for the Democrat's campaign after leaving the Globe, where he worked for more than a decade as reporter, editor and ombudsman.

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Call for Subjects for Black Latino Story

LiteraryMasturbator — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:42:33 GMT

This is from a friend of mine...

Everyone,

I am writing an article concerning the life of Black Latinos. The focus of will be on the diversity and challenges of reconciling the multiple identities of Black Latinos.

Do you feel fully accepted in either Latin or Black culture? What type
of racisms have you experienced?

If you're interested, please answer the following 10 preliminary
questions and email them to me along with a picture of yourself to
herndon@herndondavis.com <mailto:herndon@herndondavis.com.
I would also like to interview you for the podcast as well.

1. Where were you born and raised:
2. Describe your ethnic background:
3. What do you personally identity as ethnically and racially should a person ask?
4. What struggles have you had in reconciling and/or merging your multiple backgrounds (i.e. racism in both Black and Latino identities).
5. How do you celebrate your ethnic heritage and incorporate in
your life?
6. How does your Latin background influence your life?
7. How does your African or Caribbean background influence your life?
8. What is your occupation?
9. Where do you currently live?
10. If you have children, how do you instill in them their multiple ethnic identities?

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Sept. 23-24/PeaceOUT" The 6th Annual World Homohop Fest,Oakland/SF

Juba — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 21:31:11 GMT

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in association with
KITCHEN SINK MAGAZINE,
PLANET JANICE FILMS, FRAMELINE, and SF PRIDE
proudly presents
PeaceOUT: The 6th Annual World Homohop Festival
September 23-24, 2006- Oakland/San Francisco

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 23- 4PM
***FREE SCREENING***
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of The Planet Janice Films documentary
PICK UP THE MIC
at the SF LGBT Community Center
1800 Market Street (at Octavia) SF
Rainbow Room, 2nd Floor

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24-7PM
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PeaceOUT: the 6th Annual World Homohop Festiva;
at 21 GRAND performance space
416 25th Street (at Broadway) Oakland
$5-10 SLIDING SCALE admission/ALL AGES show
doors 7PM/show at 8PM/ wheelchair accesible event

Music by DJ CARI CAMPBELL
Sound and visuals by KILLER BANSHEE STUDIOS
hosted by DUTCHBOY (Rainbow Flava, BQE, Phat Family)

with performances by
JENRO DEEP DICKOLLECTIVE
NaR JULIE FUCKING POTTER RED SUMMER
LAMYA "AMIR" EL-CHIDIAC
GEOFF TRENCHARD of SUICIDE KINGS
and more!

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or email
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Iya Maria de Oxala on Pacifica Radio

Gamo — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:19:33 GMT

Who did listen to the broadcast to day?

Iya Maria gave a very nice clear comprehensive presentation of Candomble in Brazil and its interaction in Brazilian SOciety (health care, environment etc..)

worth your time!!
Gamo

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Scholars Ask Why Latinos View Blacks Poorly

Yosenio — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:14:07 GMT

cross posted from the "black people" tribe:

http://diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_6086.shtml

From Diverse Online

Current News
Scholars Ask Why Latinos View Blacks Poorly
By Christina Asquith
Jul 12, 2006, 06:39

Latino immigrants often hold negative views of African-Americans, which they most likely brought with them from their more-segregated Latin American countries, a new Duke University study shows.

The study also found that sharing neighborhoods with Blacks reinforced Latino’s negatives views, and reinforces their feelings that they have “more in common with Whites” — although Whites did not feel the same connection towards the Latinos.

“We were actually quite depressed by what we found. The presence of these attitudes doesn’t augur well for relations between these two groups,” says Dr. Paula D. McClain, a professor of political science at Duke University, who led the study along with nine graduate students.

The study, “Racial Distancing in a Southern City: Latino Immigrants’ Views of Black Americans,” is based on a 2003 survey of 500 Hispanic, Black and White residents in Durham, N.C., a city with one of the fastest-growing Hispanic population.

This study reiterated a similar conclusion reached a decade earlier out of Houston, which found that U.S.-born and foreign-born Latinos expressed a more negative view of African-Americans than Blacks expressed of Latinos. In both studies, it’s interesting to note, Blacks did not reciprocate the negative feelings.

However, Duke’s study found that the more educated the Hispanic respondent, and the more social contact they had with Blacks, the less likely they were to harbor negative stereotypes.

“It was interesting that the greater social contact with Blacks, the less they had negative stereotypes,” says Rob Brown, assistant dean of students for Emory College. “I think that’s a pivotal variable, especially for Latino immigrants who are learning English and who have not had much contact with Blacks, who are unfortunately influenced by the American lens and vocabulary of race and what White America has constructed in terms of stereotypes of Backs.”

McClain focused her study on the South because Latinos have only appeared in significant numbers there in the past 10-15 years. Recent and limited research suggests that migration has been encouraged by the 1994 North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement, global economy and an expanding market for unskilled, low-wage workers.

In 1990, Latinos made up 1 percent of the population of the city of Durham. However by 2001, they represented 8.6 percent, even as the city’s overall population also grew. The majority of Durham’s Latino population is from Mexico.

This increase prompted McClain to examine what difference Hispanic integration into the South was going to make on the Black/White dynamic.

“No section of the country has been more rigidly defined along a Black-White racial divide [than the South]. How these new Latino immigrants situated themselves vis-à-vis Black Americans has profound implications for the social and political fabric of the South,” McClain writes.

Among the results: almost 59 percent of Latino immigrants reported feeling that “few or almost no Blacks are hard working.” One third said that Blacks are “hard to get along with.” And 57 percent found that “few or no Blacks could be trusted.”

When Whites were asked the same questions, fewer than 10 percent responded with similar negative attitudes towards Blacks. McClain says that finding came as a positive surprise, and prompted her to conclude that Hispanics were not adopting their negative views from Whites.

The study concluded that most likely Latinos are bringing negative views with them from their home countries. Previous research on race and Latin America found that Blacks “represent the bottom rungs of society” and Duke researchers surmise Latino immigrants “might bring prejudicial attitudes with them,” the study states.

Dr. Ronald Walters, a professor of political science at the University of Maryland, has spent a lot of time in Brazil and calls the study “right on target.”

He also says that although most Hispanics are indigenous, they overwhelming consider themselves as “White” because of the overall negatives associations with being Black in Brazil.

“We’re dealing with a conflict between a Latin American conception of color and an American conception of color,” Walters says.

At the University of California, Davis School of Law, professor Kevin R. Johnson points the finger at Hollywood. He says movies portraying Blacks as gang members and criminals send out a global message that influences foreigners’ expectations when they arrive in the United States.

“These stereotypes are propagated on television and film that are broadcast all over the world,” he says. “We have some foreign judges and lawyers come through UC- Davis School of Law, and I’m surprised sometimes about their stereotypical views and their concern with crime and African-Americans.”

While some have said that such poor relations represent a missed opportunity for two working-class groups to partner politically, a recent Gallup poll showed that Blacks and Hispanics now both share a low opinion of the Bush administration. While Blacks opinion was low during the 2004 election (and has dropped further), Hispanics’ support of Bush has dropped drastically, due to the immigration and other issues, Walters says.

McClain intends to start a larger survey in the next year, and include Memphis, Tenn., Greenville, S.C., and possibly Greensboro, N.C. and Dalton, Ga. She hopes her findings will be more positive.

“If large portions of Latino immigrants maintain negative attitudes of Black Americans, where will this leave Blacks?” she asks. “Will Blacks find that they must not only make demands on Whites for continued progress, but also mount a fight on another front against Latinos?”

— By Christina Asquith

Reader comments on this story:

There is currently 6 reader comment on this story:

"Latino's perceptions of African-Americans"
I believe this article should be taken with a grain of salt. This data was obtained by a very specific sample. I would be curios to know what ethincities were represented in this sample. There are a variety of Latino; Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Costa Ricans and etc. Each on has a unique culture and racial make up. There are many Latinos who feel truly connected to their African heritage and African-Americans. I hope that this does not serve as the sole representation of African-American/Latino Relations because we face the same the soci-economic issues in American, we live in the same neighborhoods are seeking the same goals in life.

Here is an interesting article to further research the issue:

http://www.blackprof.com/archives/2006/05/what_does_afrolatino_mean_1.html

Thanks for reading.

-Elvita

“International perceptions of race”
This study, even if flawed, appears to demonstrate how powerful the popular media is in determining "race" relationships, not only within our physical borders, but globally. It also points out our inability and unwillingness to view ourselves as other countries do, to discover what opinions are formed about us, and to exert any control over inaccurate translations, interpretations, and their resultant opinions and actions.

-Geri R. Vital

“wake up and stop relying on other people of color”
I think it is amazing how Black people are in the mind set that other groups of people of color accept the American Black person. If one were to look at other regions of the world and notice the separation of dark skinned people and light skinned people, one would recognize that the darker skinned people are treated as a lower class. Many Hispanic people I have spoken with from various group perceive Black or dark skinned people as being cursed by God according to their religious teachings. Therefore, the treatment of people who have been cursed by God is justifiable by the lighter skinned people. If one were to look across the world and view the treatment of people from India, Mexico, and even Japan, one would notice the light skinned people are in power and are presented as being good while the dark skinned people are viewed as being bad and in positions of servitude.

I think Black Americans need to wake up and stop relying on other people of color to "be on their side" when it come to race relations in America. Black Americans have enough skill and intellect to hold their own in this society and abroad.
-AW

“quite accurate”
The study seems quite accurate. I've been living in the ground zero area of illegal immigration invasion for over thirty years now. ( Los Angeles County / Orange County, California) I personally know hundreds of former illegal aliens from Mexico who were rewarded amnesty in the past and have had contact with thousands. One thing I have noticed from all is their use of the “N” word how they come right out saying that black Americans are lazy, live off of welfare. Even the Lt. Governor of California, Bustamante was caught using the "N" word at a NAACP meeting a few years ago. He claimed it was a slip of the tongue and was given a pass because he wasn't white. It wasn't a slip of the tongue, the "N" word is part of his vocabulary that he uses often.

Immigrants have always brought their luggage with them, be it their politics, values, ethics, racism, etc. Most immigrants in the past welcomed American culture and assimilated in to American society. Today we are seeing an exception.

Take a look at the racial riots taking place in the California state prisons and recently in the Los Angeles County Jail system where latino gangs / latino inmates are targeting black inmates. Most of these latino inmates are either Mexican nationals, or 1st or 2nd generation Mexican-Americans. ( I hate using hypen-Americanism when referring to Americans but the latino Americans prefer being hyphenated-Americans, I can only guess why.)

Anyone who questions this study/poll, do your own study. Go into a Mexican immigrant community and talk with these people.

-anonymous

“fanning the flames of hostility”
I can’t speak for the accuracy of these studies, but one thing I do know that some are fanning the flames of hostility between Blacks and Hispanics, because they stand to gain the most from keeping these two groups divided (and therefore weak). It’s not hard to guess who they are and what their political leanings are.
Let this be a wake up call to both Blacks and Latinos that we cannot “be strong” on our own and make significant political gains on our own. Our historic struggle for justice, equality, and dignity in this country draws its strength from the ethics and principles espoused by Dr. King. To act with distrust and hostility towards one another not only violates these principles, but even from a pragmatic point of view keeps us from being a formidable, viable, united block in the face of those who are keeping further progress from being made – and who are, in fact, actively trying to turn back the clock on what progress has been made over the last 50 years.
- united we stand

“not a monolithic group”
Once again, the U.S. government and all of its pretty labels have influenced the findings of research. Latino/Hispanic is not a word created by us (spanish speaking peoples). When we are asked our heritage, we say what country we are from. We are forced to be considered as a whole when in reality we are all so very distinct. The article fails to mention that a majority of the immigrant population in the South is Mexican. It also fails to mention that many "latinos" for example Puerto Ricans or Dominicans, relate more closely with Blacks than with other "latinos" like Mexicans. Let's not feed into what the gov't says is P.C., let's do our studies, giving credit to all represented, or be more accurate when the representation is a select few. Pa'lante con la verdad!

-Ed

© Copyright 2005 by DiverseEducation.com

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Castro

SHOCKA — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 12:28:39 GMT

Cuba has an oppressive regime. How else to explain folk risking their lives to leave?

But all the anti-Castro people I've ever seen are white. Don't know where Celia Cruz stood. And, of course, I haven't seen all his opponents. Castro a friend to Black folk? Was it a case economics in '65? Those who could afford to leave did? Economics in '80 or something else?

Is it even an issue?

Anybody know?

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Do you identify as Hispanic?

goddessDi — Mon, 15 May 2006 06:45:04 GMT

I know some folks having this dilema, wondering how others have dealt with it...
To those of you who are of afro/latin descent -
If you have to fill out government forms do you check the hispanic box?
With all the immigration controversy these days, it seems the press is trying to pit the African American and Hispanic communities against each other, while choosing to ignore all the Afro/latin folks and the fact that latinos and people of african descent have coexsited for years.

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Zimbabwean dance

Thu, 11 May 2006 04:40:40 GMT

I have received an email from Robert MacLaren who lives and works in Zimbabwe. He would like to assist a choreographer and a group of dancers in a presentation of Zimbabwean dance at the 20th World Congress on Dance Research. He has asked me for some ideas on how to do that and I thought that posting a notice in this forum would be best.

Robert has regular contact with administration networks in Zimbabwe and his email address is: mshengu@mango.zw

More info about the congress can be read in this tribe:
http://tribes.tribe.net/danceresearchcongress20

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The New Horizon Theatre

Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:17:38 GMT

Part of a recent update:

The New Horizon Theatre is a new theatre company based in Harare. Its members
are young actors and actresses, all of whom have graduated either from CHIPAWO
and its various performing groups or from the Zimbabwe Academy of Arts Education
for Development with a Diploma in Performing Arts or a Diploma in Media Arts
from the Midlands State University.

The company represents not only a new horizon but also a new breed of
versatile, trained and experienced young performers, who have been in
performance, including dance and music, since they were very young and who have
many stage appearances under their belt both in Zimbabwe and abroad.

Over the last few years CHIPAWO has been in the process of establishing
professional Zimbabwean youth theatre at the Reps Theatre in Harare. A one-week
long run of the play, Vicious (2003), was staged there, followed by another run
of two weeks of the same play. Vicious turned out to be a masterpiece of the
Zimbabwean theatre and the young actors more than did the play justice.

The same cast went on to stage another of Chifunyise's plays, Soul Sister Comes
to Africa (2004), also at Reps Theatre. It was during these performances that
the young members of the cast decided to establish themselves as New Horizon.

Their next production was The Little Man of Murewa (2005), which after the
Harare International Festival of the Arts in 2005 had a two week run at the Reps
Theatre, Harare, and then made a tremendous impact in Denmark at the Meeting
Place 2005 Theatre Festival in Esbjerg as well as performances elsewhere in the
country, including Copenhagen.

Author:
Robert McLaren

McLaren has a long career in theatre in South Africa, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe as
an actor, director, playmaker, academic and author. His published works, under
the name Robert Mshengu Kavanagh, are studied widely at universities in the
region and internationally.

More info...

http://www.chipawo.co.zw

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Unity begins with sharing culture

Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:10:57 GMT

Check out Mapouka
http://africanmusica.com/images/mapouka.swf

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Giuliani Time

SHOCKA — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:37:56 GMT

Documentary Seeks to Get Beyond Heroic 9/11 Image

The New York Times
April 12, 2006

Fairly or not, it was a phrase that came to symbolize an era thick with accusations of police brutality against minorities, artists and other residents of New York City: "Giuliani Time."

Now it is the title of a new documentary about the political life of the mayor who presided over those years — and who, it is safe to assume, would not include the film on his campaign Web site if he were to decide to run for president in 2008.

The two-hour feature is nothing less than a full frontal assault on the civic deification of Rudolph W. Giuliani that occurred in the days after Sept. 11, 2001, when much of the news coverage shined a spotlight on his steady hand. The film is scheduled to have its premiere at the Sunshine Cinema on the Lower East Side on May 12; the distributor, Cinema Libre Studio, is aiming to release it in cities like Los Angeles, Seattle and San Francisco as well.

If the film does not take a wrecking ball to Mr. Giuliani's pedestal, it at least serves as a reminder of all the controversy, all the fighting and all the dirty laundry that defined him before the halo effect set in after the terrorist attacks. If nothing else, the filmmakers say they want to define his public image for voters and the news media before he can define himself as a possible presidential candidate — an approach that prompts the former mayor's aides to call the film a hatchet job.
MORE
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/12/movies/12rudy.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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Attention!!!! Everyone check this out

Sharif — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:42:30 GMT

Check out this website!!!
www.mexica-movement.org

It has a lot of valuable information. We all need to unify!

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FBI Agents Pepper Spray Puerto Rican Reporters

SHOCKA — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:37:51 GMT

NAHJ press release

San Juan, Puerto Rico -- The National Association of Hispanic Journalists condemned the aggressive tactics of the FBI against journalists in Puerto Rico as agents of the federal bureau searched five homes and businesses Feb. 10 to thwart an alleged "domestic terrorist attack" planned by an island pro-independence group.

Reporters gathered outside an apartment building in the San Juan area to cover the FBI operation when they were sprayed with pepper spray by bureau agents. The incident was filmed and broadcast by a local television station.

Luis Fraticelli, special agent in charge of the FBI on the island, said that the FBI agents were using ìnon-lethal forceî to keep media and protestors from crossing into a law enforcement perimeter. READ MORE

http://www.nahj.org/nahjnews/articles/2006/February/FBI.shtml

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CHIPAWO - a Zimbabwean Arts Education for Development and Employment

Sun, 19 Mar 2006 11:36:19 GMT

CHIPAWO works with children from the age of 4, all school-going children, young people and artists. CHIPAWO is active in 78 centres nation-wide and its activities directly involve over 3000 children from all backgrounds. It's exciting programmes include:

gender, child rights, AIDS and poverty reduction
disability arts and advocacy
life and career skills,
leadership, democracy
psychosocial support
musical instrument manufacture
costumes, lighting, sound and decor
wedding services
video, television productions
editing and media training
dance, music and theatre performances and playscripts of all kinds by children and young people
performing arts and media courses
diplomas and certificates for adults

The CHIPAWO website is: www.chipawo.co.zw

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A Hispanic man -This is funny

Seven — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 02:56:12 GMT

A Hispanic man walks into a cafe one early morning and noticed that he was the only Hispanic man there. As he sat down, he noticed a white man behind him.The white man said, "Colored people are not allowed here."
The Hispanic man turned around and stood up. He then said:

"Listen Pendejo....when i was born, i was tan, "
"When i grew up, i was tan, "
"When i'm sick, i'm tan, "
"When i go in the sun, i'm tan, "
"When I'm cold, i'm tan, "
"When i die, i'll be tan ."
But you pendejo...."
"When you're born, you're pink, "
"When you grow up, you're white, "
"When you're sick, you're green, "
"When you go in the sun, you turn red, "
"When you're cold, you turn blue, "
"And when you die, you turn purple."
"And you have the nerve to call me colored?"
"COME MIERDA, CULERO!!
"GRINGO PENDEJO MALPISADO!!!"

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Jean Michel Basquiat

Seven — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 05:48:55 GMT

Jean Michel Basquiat

Most people know Jean-Michel Basquiat as an African American artist—but as a new retrospective shows, his Latino roots had an equally profound influence on his work.

African American hip-hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy remembers the scene well: One day in the early 1980s, he and buddy Jean-Michel Basquiat—who was about to become one of the most famous painters of the 20th century—had gotten together over a plate of arroz con pollo at a restaurant on New York City's Lower East Side. "When Jean ordered it, he pronounced it [properly], and I said, 'Yo! You speak Spanish?'" Freddy recalls. "He told me that his moms was Puerto Rican."

Freddy is hardly the only one to have been caught off guard by Jean-Michel's Latino roots. Thanks in part to the 1996 movie Basquiat, many people are familiar with Jean-Michel's story—how he went from street artist to celebrated icon whose graffiti-inspired work revived American painting before his fatal heroin overdose in 1988 at the age of 27. And yet today, few know that this artist with black skin and a French-sounding name (his dad was Haitian) was deeply connected to his Latino side.

That may change with the new exhibit Basquiat, the most comprehensive showing of the artist's work ever. Featuring more than 150 paintings and drawings, Basquiat (which started at New York City's Brooklyn Museum, is now at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles until October 10 and moves to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, from November 20 to February 12) provides a powerful look at how Jean-Michel used his art as a forum for the exploration of his black Latino identity—and transformed the art world. Back then, "people weren't talking about Black or Latino cultures in the way [they do now]," exhibition cocurator Kellie Jones says. "In 1983 he was really ahead of his time"—particularly in the way he used his work to make bold statements about the history of Blacks and Latinos. For example, in "Native Carrying Some Guns, Bibles, Amorites on Safari", the word oro is scribbled under Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés's name, which is then shortened to corte, the Spanish word for "cut"—a sharp reference to how invading Spaniards sliced through indigenous cultures in the name of money. And in "The Nile", which depicts slaves being transported via ship, an African mask appears in one corner while the phrase, el gran espectáculo stretches across the top, capturing the painful trajectory of Jean-Michel's ancestors.

It was Jean-Michel's mother who taught him to speak fluent Spanish when he was growing up in Brooklyn. She also encouraged him to draw, taking him to the city's museums and enrolling him in an art program for children. "My mother gave me all the primary things," Jean-Michel once said. "The art came from her."

As a teen, Jean-Michel moved to Puerto Rico with his family for a few years, and felt so drawn to this part of his heritage that he often returned to the island to paint. But this connection, says good friend Yasmin Ramirez, now a fellow at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies in New York City, was about more than just art. "He carried his mom within his heart," Yasmin says. "He never forgot that he was Black and Latino."

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African American Lives

SHOCKA — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:01:56 GMT

AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES, a four-part PBS series airing in February, uses genealogy, oral history, family stories and DNA analysis to trace lineage through American history and back to Africa. Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois professor of the Humanities and chair of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, hosts the series. Participants include Dr. Ben Carson, Whoopi Goldberg, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Dr. Mae Jemison, Quincy Jones, Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Chris Tucker and Oprah Winfrey.

http://www.pbs.org/previews/africanamericanlives/

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Mine mix-up latest example of careless reporting on poor

SHOCKA — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 07:22:05 GMT

By MARY MITCHELL
Chicago Sun-Times
Jan.8, 2006

There are two groups in this world. Those who have power and those who do not. If you have power, it doesn't matter what color or gender you are. Oprah and Condi are good examples of this universal truth. But if you are born into the latter group, then more often than not, your stories are not handled with the same care as other stories.

In incidents involving poor people, foolish mistakes and human error are easily excused. Many observers, however, may suspect that if certain victims had been white and well off, errors would not have been allowed to compound the calamity.

For instance, the media were cavalier when we reported on the thousands of New Orleans families displaced by Hurricane Katrina, most of whom were poor and black. Rumors of widespread rapes and violence were reported like gospel, triggering a fear of the black man that became so entrenched that innocent families suffered because people were too scared to deliver aid.

Worse yet, we discovered later that Michael Brown, the disgraced former head of FEMA, exchanged e-mails with his staff in which he seemed more concerned about his media image and creature comforts than the fate of people whom the media claimed were being raped and murdered in facilities that were supposed to be havens.

Either Brown had a lot of gall or he didn't believe a word he read; I'm not sure which was the case.

Because we didn't verify the facts, we added to the misery these families endured.

However, we were painstakingly sensitive when we reported on the 9/11 tragedy, where most of the victims were white and middle- and upper-class.

There were no photographs disseminated that showed the remains of humans who hurled themselves from windows. But the deaths claimed by Katrina were captured in photographs of rotting corpses that were left floating in flooded New Orleans neighborhoods.

Unfortunately, this same ugly pattern of insensitivity was at play during the mine tragedy.

Although a "miscommunication" is being blamed for misleading desperate and grief-stricken families to believe that their loved ones were alive when they had actually died in the mining accident, passing on a miscommunication of this level is practically unfathomable to most journalists.

We are professionals, especially at the scene of a tragedy.

But because officials were dealing with poor, unsophisticated, mining families, the media failed to show these families the same level of professional treatment we would have shown middle- and upper-class victims.

READ MORE
http://www.suntimes.com/output/mitchell/cst-nws-mitch08.html

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Natives who are black struggle to gain acceptance from their own tribes

SHOCKA — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 00:28:38 GMT

By JODI RAVE
The Missoulian

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Radmilla Cody grew up in a Navajo world, butchering sheep, raising goats and speaking Dine.

Yet many in her tribe - and her family - never accepted her.

Her maternal uncle called her a black pig.

Neighborhood kids taunted her with names like “Zhinii Zhinii coco puff,” a Navajo slur for blacks.

Even when Cody was crowned Miss Navajo Nation, some complained she could not represent the country's largest tribe.

Cody was born to a Navajo mother and a black father.

She grew up knowing her mother considered giving her up. But her grandmother filled those empty spaces with kindness, reminding the girl she was special and beautiful - like ancient canyon walls against a turquoise sky.

She wanted a place among the Navajo, and she learned to embrace her two cultures.

“I identify more with the Navajo side,” said Cody, now 29. “But I love the black side as well. That is who I am.”

Who she is - part Native, part black - is at the heart of a growing debate about Native identity.

READ MORE
http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2005/12/04/news/mtregional/news05.txt

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It's about ethnic identity

SHOCKA — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:56:12 GMT

By Ruben Navarrette Jr.
The San Diego UNION-TRIBUNE

Nov. 23, 2005

The epiphany came while I was pledging allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

I was about to deliver a speech to a Republican women's group when it occurred to me: This was all my parents' generation of Mexican-Americans ever wanted, to be treated as full citizens of the republic and live in "one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

They didn't want to start their own country or reclaim the Southwest for Mexico. They just wanted to be treated as Americans. They wanted it so badly that they tacked on a hyphen.

In the 1940s and '50s, even those born on this side of the border were commonly referred to as Mexicans. By the 1960s, many were identifying themselves as Mexican-Americans as if to say, "This is my country too."

Now things have come full circle. A lot of people want me to drop the hyphen and call myself a plain ol' American.

People like the woman in the audience who took issue with me for referring to myself as a Mexican-American.

"When are we going to get past that?" she asked. "Why don't you just call yourself an American?"

Here we go. Of course, I'm an American, I said. That's a given. I was born in the United States to parents who were born in the United States. But I'm also Mexican. It's the blood in my veins, and the smile on my face at Mexican weddings when mariachis play, and the comfort I feel with a food, a culture and a people I call my own. It's not a question of being either American or Mexican. I'm both.

The woman wouldn't let it go. Her husband's roots were German, she said. But he didn't call himself German-American.

He might, I said, if he lived in Wisconsin or Pennsylvania or any other state with a large population of Americans of German ancestry. Or he'd call himself German. This is California. Everyone came here from somewhere else. So it's not the place to gauge ethnic pride. It's one thing to be Irish in Los Angeles, another to be Irish in Boston.

Not persuaded, the woman frowned. But she also let me off the hook, and stopped her questioning.

Other Mexican-Americans may approach the issue of identity differently. In a magazine interview, Mexican-American actress Eva Longoria – who was born and raised in Texas – described herself as "Mexican." She dropped the hyphen all right, and what comes after it.

Personally, I wouldn't go that far. I've gotten used to the hyphen – and to defending it. My readers get furious. Some even call me a racist for using the hyphen. Others quote President Theodore Roosevelt who railed against the idea of a hyphenated American as someone who was "not an American at all."

What the readers forget is that T.R. uttered those words in the early 1900s and that the immigrants to which he was referring were German, Irish and Italian. None of those groups – give or take a Germantown or a St. Patrick's Day – was ever in danger of breaking off from the republic. None deserved to have their loyalty challenged. That means T.R. was paranoid – and maybe a tad ethnocentric.

Here's the thing: using the hyphen isn't about claiming one's nationality. It's about acknowledging one's ethnicity.

What people want me to acknowledge is that I'm an American, first and foremost. I guess I should consider that progress. My parents' generation – as they were being spanked for speaking Spanish in school, tracked into vocational courses, denied access to movie houses except in the balcony, kept out of municipal swimming pools and subjected to other forms of humiliation – would have given anything to have been invited to become full-fledged Americans.

But, the more I think about it, the more I think it's mostly about fear. Consider that the number of Latinos in the United States has now surpassed 40 million, that they are expected to account for one in four Americans by 2050, that they have an annual buying power of more than $800 billion and that both political parties are courting them.

For those who worry that the country is changing in ways that could make them less relevant, it must be tempting to try to neutralize the effect by insisting that those you've always considered different are suddenly not so different after all.

So those folks who grew up being called Mexicans are really Americans. I can't wait to tell my parents. They'll be so relieved.

Navarrette can be reached via e-mail at ruben.navarrette@uniontrib.com.

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161 New Jobs Available

Rosita — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:10:50 GMT

We had 161 other positions posted last week. Here are some of the positions. Please go to http://www.hispanic-jobs.com to see more jobs or to apply.

BILINGUAL HEALTHCARE SALES REPS ALL STATES Apogee

Medical Receptionist McLean, VA Sport And Spine Rehab

Seasonal Tax Positions Atlanta, GA Jackson Hewitt Tax Service

THERAPIST I (MULTICULTURAL BILINGUAL COUNSELOR) Alexandria, VA The City of Alexandria

Translator Rolling Meadows, IL Valtera Corporation

Bilingual E/S Care Coordinator I Los Angeles, CA Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center

Mental Health Therapist Lansing, MI CEI - Community Mental Health

Sr. Systems Engineer Norwood, MA Open Channel Solutions

Underwriter, Personal Lines Sacramento, CA Nationwide Insurance

Production Manager Grayson, KY CINTAS

Anti-Racism Coordinator Seattle, WA Fremont Public Association

Eligibility Worker II Alexandria, VA Alexandria Dept. of Human Services

Secretary Morristown, NJ Youth Consultation Service

Sales Support and Design Coordinator Boston, MA El Planeta Publishing, LLC

Accounting Manager Washington, DC Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital

Soccer Sales Account Executive Carson, CA Club Deportivo Chivas USA

Converged Solutions Engineer Cedar Knolls, NJ Strategic Products and Services

Protective Services Worker San Diego, CA County of San Diego

Child Care Teachers Seattle, WA Bright Horizons Family Solutions

Boot shoe pattern & upper makers, cutters, finishers, lasters New York, NY E. Vogel Boots & Shoes

RECEIVING / INSPECTION / REPAIR PERSON Los Angeles, CA Liton Lighting

Bilingual Customer Service Representatives Atlanta, GA Royal Professional Solutions

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Who speaks spanish?

Martin — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:55:17 GMT

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Macarena Hernández: 'Go back where I came from'?

SHOCKA — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:22:21 GMT

'Go back where I came from'? Hey, that's South Texas

October 14, 2005
Dallas Morning News

America, stand up for justice and decency

When I took this job two months ago -- the first Latina to write a regular editorial column at The Dallas Morning News -- I imagined that it might be hard for some readers to get used to my voice and perspective. But until Bill O'Re! illy denounced me on his radio and television shows Tuesday, no reader had called me a "wetback," "beaner," "spic" or "stupid Mexican."

(When I told my mother that strangers were calling me a mojada -- wetback -- she was quite amused.)

Thousands of e-mails and phone calls poured in. In fairness, a few were complimentary and others were critical but rational -- many sharing their frustration over our government's inability to come up with a solid immigration reform plan.

Those messages were swamped by the ones radiating anger.

Some critics compared me to New York Times plagiarist Jayson Blair because I inadvertently referred to Mr. O'Reilly's nationally syndicated radio show, The Radio Factor, by the name of his top-rated cable television show. That was a mistake -- and it breaks my heart to put an error into the newspaper -- but I hope you won't let that obscure my larger point.

Hey, it's not like I said we should adopt Spanish as our national language.

Ironically, many of the harsher critics hadn't even read the column they were criticizing. How do I know? This was typical: "I wouldn't read your column or newspaper, but I'm a regular viewer of The O'Reilly Factor, and ..."

One woman, who echoed the "You're biased!" sentiment of many e-mails, wrote that I should look for a job with the National Enquirer. Ouch.

"It is obvious that you are an opinion journalist," she wrote.

Well, yes, and that's probably why my column appears on a page called Viewpoints.

But really, now, to suggest that my column was evidence that The News has turned pinko-liberal? The newspaper that twice recommended George W. Bush for president? That advocates balancing the budget without raising taxes? That often sides with big business?

I have to admit, the most stinging notes came from some fellow Latinos, who offered variations of "You don't speak for me. I love Bill O'Reilly." I won't argue. I probably don't speak for you, but I do speak with you.

The ones who told me to "go back where I came from" were kind of funny. What, back to South Texas? Believe me, it crossed my mind.

Many called me "anti-American," another irony. I think of myself as the product of the American dream. My parents, like most immigrants, came here in search of the hope that eluded them at home. Today, I straddle two worlds: immigrant with a history and citizen trying to make things better. Mr. O'Reilly is the child of immigrants, too, as he likes to remind his audience.

Why can't some folks understand that I can have cariño for Mexico and also love the United States?

"Coward! Face him!" Mr. O'Reilly's fans demanded.

No, thanks. I have my own platform, and with it the responsibility to offer mis verdades, my truths. Thank God for a country where each of us -- me and Mr. O'Reilly included -- get to say what we think. No Jerry Springer showdowns for me.

If I could make one small suggestion: Those of you so clearly concerned about our nation's immigration policy could channel your anger toward our president and your other representatives. Turn your rage into something positive.

Much of our anti-immigrant sentiment starts with people who don't know the border or understand Latin American poverty. They don't realize that a geographical boundary will never keep out the hungry and the desperate.

When Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist visited the U.S.-Mexico border for the first time last week, he saw what you can't see from a television studio or an office on Capitol Hill.

"You see the river itself and the footprints," he told the San Antonio Express-News, "you see the humanity that that represents."

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Macarena Hernández is a Dallas Morning News editorial columnist. Her e-mail address is mhernandez@dallasnews.com.

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156 New Jobs Posted for Bilingual Hispanics

Rosita — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:53:48 GMT

We had 156 other positions posted last week. Here are some of the positions. To see more or apply, please go to http://www.hispanic-jobs.com

High School Founding Principal Chicago, IL Noble Street Charter High School

Executive Director Chicago, IL Alliance of Logan Square Organizations

Instructor Bloomsburg, PA Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

S. Florida Junior Sales Miami, FL Comprehensive Search
Office Maintenance Clerk Seattle, WA Callison

Sales Coordinator II (Bilingual) Columbus, GA Aflac
FIELD SALES ASSOCIATE GRAND JUNCTION, CO Kare Distribution

Social Case Worker Supervisor Denver, CO City and County of Denver

Special Education Teacher Denver, CO City and County of Denver

Warehouse Workers - Mesa Mesa, AZ Empire Southwest
Maintenance-Supervisor Newark, NJ Youth Consultation Service

External Reporting Manager Salt Lake City, UT INVESTools, INC

Workers Comp Medical Only Adjuster Phoenix, AZ Crawford & Company

Coordinator of Multicultural Student Recruitment and Retention Aurora, IL Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Director of Center for Nursing Research Johnson City, TN East Tennessee State University

Wireless Sales Representatives Downey/Long Beach/Lakewood, CA The Mobile Solution

Cross Sales Representative Hagerstown, MD First Data Merchant Services

Retail Store Management Chicago, IL Toys R Us
Phone Center Supervisor Mokena, Chicago, IL Questions & Marekting Research Services, Inc.

Atlanta Sales Specialist Atlanta, GA Comprehensive Search
Physician Fayetteville, AR Pat Walker Health Center

Instructor Colorado Springs, CO MasterDrive of Colorado Springs

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Labor Dept. looks into Gulf disputes over wages, unsafe work conditions

SHOCKA — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:08:19 GMT

The Clarion-Ledger
Jackson, Miss.
Nov. 6, 2005

Tensions along the Mississippi Gulf Coast are surfacing between contractors and immigrant workers who've arrived to repair roofs, clean up debris and tear down destroyed property.

The mostly Hispanic workers, many of whom support families in their native countries, are reporting a pattern of being short-changed on payments, unfairly arrested and subjected to subtle threats of deportation. One Mexican worker who has lived in the United States for 14 years said a colleague of a contractor waved a gun in his face.

The situation is part of an on-going problem with immigrants, the workers and their advocates say, but one that has been exacerbated in the wake of Hurricane Katrina as competition over pricing and low wages has intensified, and a number of undocumented laborers have arrived on the scene.
http://timewarp.gannett.com/newsdept/files/jacksonMSkatrinaworkers.mht

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174 New Jobs Posted for Bilingual Hispanics

Rosita — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 18:25:38 GMT

We had 174 other positions posted last week. Here are some of the positions. Please apply or see more jobs at http://www.hispanic-jobs.com

Case Counselor Reading, PA OPEN DOOR

Customer Service Representative District of Columbia Chevy Chase Bank

Servers, Greeters & Bussers Garden Grove, CA Embassy Suites Hotel Anaheim South

Administrative Assistant New York City New York City, NY Development Dimensions International

Child Care Teachers Las Vegas, NV & Tempe, AZ Bright Horizons Family Solutions

Merchandiser - Apparel Gardena, CA Interstate Personnel Services

Assistant Professor of Physical Education Curriculum and Instruction Silver City, NM Western New Mexico University

Converged Solutions Engineer Chicago, IL Strategic Products and Services

Bilingual (Spanish) Telephone Representative Buffalo, NY Small Business Administration

Assistant Professor of Special Education Illinois Eastern Illinois University

Woodworkers-Steel Welders Santa Fe Springs, CA Interior Systems Inc.

Assistant Director-Environmental Services various Texas locations HHS

Field Nurse Case Manager (RN) various States GENEX Servies Inc.

Bilingual Mortgage Loan Counselor Irving, TX EMC Mortgage Corporation

First Aid & Safety Representative various States CINTAS The Service Professionals

FOOD DEMONSTRATORS Arizona & San Diego CLUB DEMONSTRATION SERVICES

Case Manager (Bilingual English/Spanish) San Francisco, CA On Lok Senior Health

Accountant Denver, CO First Data Corporation

QA Engineer I Norwood, MA Open Channel Solutions

Early Child hood Teacher 04 Certified Broadview, IL Lee's Child Care Center Inc.

Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice- Instructor/Assistant Professor Bloomsburg,PA Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

Social Worker Grover Beach, CA moss beach homes, inc

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138 New Jobs Posted for Hispanics

Rosita — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 19:41:31 GMT

We had 138 other positions posted last week. Here are some of the positions. To apply, please go to www.hispanic-jobs.com

Counselor Openings! (Full & Part Time) San Francisco, CA Larkin Street Youth Services

Vice President of Services Arizona Comprehensive Search
SALES REPRESENTATIVES Many States available ServiceMaster

Bilingual Collections and Customer Service Representatives Dallas, TX Corestaff

Traffic Safety Instructor Los Angeles, CA Automobile Club of Southern California

Call Center Representative Irving, TX WFS Financial

Van Driver Pacoima, CA Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center

Debt Counselor / Collections Rochester, NY ConServe

Claim Processor Michigan State Farm Insurance

Bi-Lingual Contract Trainer / Facillitator Los Angeles, CA
Development Dimensions International

VP of Financial Reporting Salt Lake City, UT INVESTools, INC
Arizona Mills Mall Santa Claus Photos Tempe, AZ IPI of Arizona

Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics Candidate Pool Bloomsburg, PA Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

Customer Service Representative Miami, FL Tampa Armature Works, Inc

Distribution Center Trainer North Kingstown, RI Ocean State Job Lot

Family Specialist Campbell, CA EMQ Children & Family Services

Director, Job and Family Services Montgomery County, OH Montgomery County Job and Family Services

Financial Services Representative HARTFORD, CT Professional Alternatives

HR Generalist WATSONVILLE, CA Direct Sourcing Solutions
Ritter Health Center Director San Rafael, CA Ritter Center

Customer Operations Rep/Spanish Marlborugh, MA 3 Com
Payroll Specialist: Multi-State West LA, CA ThePeopleWorks

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These companies seek bilingual Hispanics

Rosita — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:19:38 GMT

To apply and see more jobs in your state, please go to http://www.hispanic-jobs.com

10/25/2005 PT Teller Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union Wappingers Falls - New York - USA Finance/Banking

10/25/2005 FT Teller - Newburgh Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union Poughkeepsie - New York - USA Finance/Banking

10/25/2005 Medical Assistant, Back Office ( Confidential - UNDISCLOSED )
Use "Apply Online" to contact this company San Francisco - California - USA Healthcare/Physician/Nursing

10/25/2005 Administrative Assistant/Receptionist (Bilingual English/Spanish) ( Confidential - UNDISCLOSED )
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10/25/2005 Medical Examiner/Phlebotomist ( Confidential - UNDISCLOSED )
Use "Apply Online" to contact this company Oakland - California - USA Healthcare/Physician/Nursing

10/25/2005 Project Specialist (Bilingual Spanish) ( Confidential - UNDISCLOSED )
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10/25/2005 Bilingual Receptionist ( Confidential - UNDISCLOSED )
Use "Apply Online" to contact this company Tarzana - California - USA Administrative/Office/Clerical

10/25/2005 Bilingual Medical Receptionist ( Confidential - UNDISCLOSED )
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10/25/2005 Customer service rep -Tire technician ( Confidential - UNDISCLOSED )
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10/25/2005 Shipping/Receiving Supervisor ( Confidential - UNDISCLOSED )
Use "Apply Online" to contact this company Boston - Massachusetts - USA Warehousing/Shipping/Receiving

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Rosa Parks

SHOCKA — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:43:03 GMT

Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday. She was 92. Mrs. Parks died at her home of natural causes, said Karen Morgan, a spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. Mrs. Parks was 42 when she committed an act of defiance in 1955 that was to change the course of American history and earn her the title "mother of the civil rights movement."

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La Nueva Orleans

SHOCKA — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 05:19:24 GMT

By Gregory Rodriguez

Sept. 25, 2005

NO MATTER WHAT ALL the politicians and activists want, African
Americans and impoverished white Cajuns will not be first in line to rebuild
the Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast and New Orleans. Latino immigrants, many
of them undocumented, will. And when they're done, they're going to
stay, making New Orleans look like Los Angeles. It's the federal government
that will have made the transformation possible, further exposing the
hollowness of the immigration debate.

The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-op-latino25sep25,1,6749414.story?coll=la-tot-promo

Visit latimes.com at http://www.latimes.com

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The war on Mexico

LorenzoRodriguezyRios — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:38:07 GMT

The US Government declared war on Mexico in 1846 with the invasion of what is now Texas. The bloody war only ended with the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in which Mexico gave the US all of California, New Mexico, Texas and most of Arizona, parts of Nevada, Utah, Colorado and Wyoming. To add insult, Mexicans living on these lands were treated as a conquered and inferior race, thus the minimalization and disenfranchisement began...

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These companies are seeking bilingual hispanics...

Rosita — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:28:36 GMT

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The Africa Channel

SHOCKA — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 06:07:21 GMT

I just heard about this. Don't have a lunch date, just late summer. Don't have anymore info. Sorry. If anybody does, please share.

www.theafricachannel.com

The Africa Channel is to feature more than 1,200 hours of English-language programming, including news and information, travel, lifestyle, music, soaps, talk, reality, feature films and special events.

Also planned are two Africa-based news programs, "Africa Journal," a weekly show that looks in-depth at the stories of the week, and "Carte Blanche," a "60 Minutes"-style hour-long magazine show produced by the M-Net satellite channel in South Africa.

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Firing over racial-profiling report

SHOCKA — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 16:56:32 GMT

Democrats want official reinstated over report on profiling

Aug. 25 N.Y. Times
WASHINGTON -- Democrats in Congress called Thursday for the reinstatement of a Justice Department official who objected to his supervisors' effort to play down the findings of a federal report on racial profiling.

The White House is replacing the official, Lawrence A. Greenfeld, who is director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, months after he complained that senior political officials at the department were seeking to distort publicly the findings of the statistical report by his agency.

The report found that while drivers from different racial or ethnic groups were stopped by the police at essentially the same rate, blacks and Hispanics were much more likely to have their vehicles searched or be subjected to the use of force once they were stopped.

Mr. Greenfeld objected to efforts by his superiors at the Justice Department to delete references to the racial or ethnic disparities from a planned news release on the study. After he refused to delete the material, the study was posted online in April, unchanged, but no public announcement was made. The White House has now told Mr. Greenfeld he is being replaced.

In a letter sent Thursday to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, six Democrats in Congress called for Mr. Greenfeld's immediate reinstatement. Citing the importance of the racial profiling issue, the letter said that the Justice Department must "be forthcoming about these troubling statistics" from the April report and that it was "essential that all data and statistical conclusions be free from political manipulation."READ MORE

www.nytimes.com/2005/08/26/politics/26profiling.html

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CNN Last Night

LorenzoRodriguezyRios — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:59:29 GMT

Did anyone catch Lou Dobbs last night? He had a senator from somewhere who was talking about completely racist legislation that he has drafted against latinos and immigration. I am so tired of seeing this blatant racism against latinos drafted by these old white men who have no grasp on reality today. How can we come together to confront this?

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Teach at CELLspace!!!

Patricia — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:02:26 GMT

CELLspace is a volunteer-based collaborative art center which fosters community through art and education, performance and community building. Through cooperative relationships and multi-disciplinary programs, we encourage the celebration of intergenerational and cross-cultural collaborations.

CELL, (Collectively Explorative Learning Labs), offers communal art workshops and learning labs in a variety of artistic mediums. Our 10,000 square foot facility serves as an arts incubator, enabling emerging Bay Area artists to create, develop, exhibit, and perform new work in an affordable, cooperative, and collaborative environment.

We are currently seeking creative individuals to teach during our Summer (June-August) season, and potentially continue with us for following seasons.

See the following list of classes and send an email to classes@CELLspace.org For more information about CELLspace visit www.CELLspace.org
(Deadline: 5pm, Friday the 22th of April)

List of CELLspace Classes, June- August

*Painting (intro and advanced techniques using oils,
acrylics, tempura and water on various traditional and
non-traditional surfaces.

*Drawing (intro and advanced, using non-traditional
techniques, such as including the use of a projector
for making large banners)

*Public (Guerilla) Art (silk-screening on cloth and
paper, stenciling, wheatpaste and banner making,
large puppet/ figure making, muralism and spray
painting).

*Traditional/ Cultural Art (inc: Cartoneria (using paper
and recycled materials), pi?ata making, Mexican tin +
copper stamping + carving, Mihndi(henna paint),
origami, African mask making, lithography, etching,
linocut,woodcut...etc).

*Maille (Chain mail) (inc. clothing/ armor, inlays,
jewelry, bags,... ).

*Costumes (inc: wings, clothing, masks, using beads
for clothing and jewelry,latex clothing...).

*DIY Classes (book binding, papermaking, gifts, bags,
etc. Integrated class focusing on DIY craft
techniques for creating goods)

*Art Therapy (inc. all forms of artistic mediums
developed by an experienced art therapist/ healer)

*DIY Musical Instruments (inc. glass goblets, Poor
Lady's Gamelan, percussion devices using miniature
mics, spoons, washboards, bass instruments, etc.)

*Music Classes (for not as popular instruments, such
as: the theramin, singing saw, harmonica,accordion
and more).

*Dance Classes (inc. Flamenco, Salsa, Hooping …''''')

*Film Classes (history of film and different genres,
global films, documentaries...)

*Exercise, Kick Boxing, Karate, Jujitsu, Tai Chi and
Self Defense

*Traditional Global Recipes (focus on peasant-scrap
food centered, inc. component on nutrition and
health).

*Veggie/ Vegan Dishes (focus on affordability,
nutrition and health).

*Healing Foods (inc: herbs, ointments, potions,
concoctions, tonics, tinctures...etc)

*Bartending (exotic drinks from around the world, using
affordable alcohol and ingredients).

*Meditation (focus on healing).

*Yoga

*Alternative Parenting Classes (Meeting the Child
Development credit meeting court requirements).

*Metal Welding: (intro, inter, adv.)

*Wire Sculpture

*Metal w/ Inert Gas ( aka wire-feed welding)

*Furniture Renovation (working with found, discarded
and recycled pieces).

*Woodcarving

*Stone Carving

*Sculpting with Cernit (no oven required clay)

*Quema de Judas (Burning Giants).

*Wax sculpting/ Candle making

*Theater History and Performance (influences: Teatro
Campesino, Agusto Boal, Paulo Freire...)

*Puppetry

*Creative Writing

*Cultural Studies (Chican@ / Latin American, African
American, Asian American, Middle Eastern American,
Filipino American and Native American
with heavy focus on Arts, Film, Theater, Literature).

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AFFORDABLE SPANISH TUTORING, INTERPRETING AND TRANSLATING SERVICES

Patricia — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:59:45 GMT

Patricia Sanchez Nuno
2050 Bryant Street. San Francisco, CA 94110
Ph: (408) 314-6669 zapatita@riseup.net

OBJECTIVE: to perform excellent Spanish Tutoring,
Translating and Interpreting services.

EXPERIENCE:

* Native Spanish speaker who lived in Mexico as a child and mid-
teens. Both parents are immigrants from Mexico, and I travel to
visit family regularly.

*Over TEN years of experience as Spanish tutor, translator
and interpreter for students and individuals of all ages, groups and
organizations.

*Capable of creating logical, structured, progressive and fun
lessons plans, developing language interest and comprehension,
on both personal and group levels.

*Constructively incorporated knowledge of Latin American culture
in lessons; including music, film, art and history.

*Great with children and youth; very patient, nurturing, creative
and good sense of humor.

EDUCATION:

BA in Humanities from New College of California, SF, 2004
Received six Child Development units from San Jose City College 2004
Studying Translation and Interpretation for certification at
The National Hispanic University, San Jose

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Microsoft Office Suite, Excel and the Internet

REFERENCES:

Available upon request.

Access to reliable transportation and very flexible hours.
Compensation is sliding scale and negotiable.

The best way to reach me is by calling: (408) 314-6669 (old San Jose #, sorry) or by sending an email to ZaPatita@riseup.net

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Plantanos

Empress — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:50:42 GMT

OK, there are the crunchier ones that are flattened sometimes!
and then there are the sweet ones cut in larger chuncks...
what are they, where do i get them and how do i make them at home
when i get Plantains and fry them at home.. they are not sweet
i need help
thanks
Lindsay

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Haitian Dread Idren Being Executed

Jah_B — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 01:15:21 GMT

Haitian Dread Idren Being Executed

The international media is ignoring many aspects of the US-led coup against Haiti. Part of the fallout is the systematic elimination of pro-Aristide citizens.

The military forces are targetting Dreads and executing them.

This a dread dread time.

I can only send upful vibes to my brothers and sister in occupation.

This Black republic has been marginalized and scorned for having the audacity to overthrow the slaver. For this we common people should love them all the more.

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BOOKS ON THE AFRICAN DIASPORA BY GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS

systemic_anomaly — Sat, 25 Oct 2003 07:44:24 GMT

A. BOOKS ON THE AFRICAN DIASPORA BY GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS

1. General
The African diaspora in the Indian Ocean / edited by Shihan de Silva
Jayasuriya and Richard Pankhurst
Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2003. 293 p., 31 p. of plates.
DS339.3.A34.A34 2003 Main

African diaspora: interpretive essays / edited by
Martin L. Kilson, Robert I. Rotberg. Cambridge,
Mass : Harvard University Press, 1976.
GN645.A361 Anthropology; GN645.A36 Moffitt

Africana studies : a survey of Africa and the African diaspora / edited
by Mario Azevedo. Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c1998. 2nd ed.
DT16.5.A35 1998 Moffitt

Africans abroad: a documentary history of the Black
diaspora in Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean
during the age of slavery / Graham W. Irwin. New
York : Columbia University Press, 1977.
HT861.A41 Main

Aguessy, Honorat. Cultures vodoun: manifestations,
migrations, metamorphoses (Afrique, Caraibes,
Ameriques... Cotonou, Benin : Institut de
Developpement et d'Echanges Endogenes [between 1989
and 1994].
BL2490.A358 1989 Main

Art and culture in Nigeria and the diaspora / Frank A.
Salamone, guest editor. Williamsburg, VA : Dept. of
Anthropology, College of William and Mary, 1991.
DT515.4.A7 1991 Main

Bernal, Martin. Black Athena: the Afroasiatic roots of
classical civilization. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers
University Press, 1987-<1991.
DF78.B398 1987 Moffitt

Black Atlantic writers of the eighteenth century:
living the new exodus in England and the Americas /
edited by Adam Potkay and Sandra Burr. New York :
St. Martin's Press, 1995.
PR1297.B57 1995 Moffitt

Black people and their culture: selected writings from
the African diaspora. [s.l. : s.n.]. 1976.
E29.N3B55 1976 Music

Chaliand, Gerard. The Penguin atlas of diasporas / by
Gerard Chaliand and Jean-Pierre Rageau, maps by
Catherine Petit; translated from the French by A.
M. Berrett. New York : Viking, 1995.
GN370.C43 1995 Anthropology Reference
French edition; G1046.E27C42 1991 Map Room

Creating a paradigm and research agenda for comparative
studies of the worldwide dispersion of African
peoples: proceedings of the International Advisory
Committee of the African Diaspora Research Project,
November... East Lansing, Mich. : The Project, 1990.
DT15.M43 1990 Main

Crosswinds: an anthology of Black dramatists in the
diaspora/ edited with an introduction by William B.
Branch. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1993.
PS626.N4C76 1993 Main, Moffitt

Curtin, Philip D.
Migration and mortality in Africa and the Atlantic world, 1700-1900 /
Philip D. Curtin
Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2001
DT352.7.C87 2001 Main

Drachler, Jacob. Black homeland/Black diaspora: cross-
currents of the African relationship. Port
Washington, Kennikat Press, 1975.
GN645.D731 Anthropology; GN645.D73 Moffitt

Edwards, Flora Mancuso. The theater of the black
diaspora: a comparative study of black drama in
Brazil, Cuba and the United States. Ph.D. Thesis.
New York University, 1975.
Microfilm 20143 NewsMicro

Emerging perspectives on the Black diaspora / edited
with introductions by Aubrey W. Bennett and G. L.
Watson. Lanham : University Press of America, 1989.
CB235.E47 1990 Main, Moffitt, Anthropology

Gilroy, Paul. The black Atlantic: modernity and double
consciousness. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard
University Press, 1993.
CB235.G55 1993 Main, Moffitt

--- Small acts: thoughts on the politics of black
culture. London; New York : Serpent's Tail, 1993.
DA125.N4G54 1993 Main, Moffitt

Global dimensions of the African diaspora / edited by Joseph E. Harris.
Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press, 1982.
DT14.G56 1982 Main

Global dimensions of the African diaspora / edited by Joseph E. Harris.
Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press, 1993. 2nd ed.
DT16.5.G58 1993 Main

Gray, John. Ashe, traditional religion and healing in
Sub-Saharan Africa and the diaspora: a classified
international bibliography. New York : Greenwood
Press, 1989.
BL246.5.A12C72 1989 Main, Anthropology

Green, Charles (Charles St. Clair)
Manufacturing powerlessness in the black diaspora : inner-city youth
and the new global frontier / Charles Green
Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, c2001
HQ796.G723 2001 Main

Hunwick, John O.
The African diaspora in the Mediterranean lands of Islam / John Hunwick
and Eve Trout[t] Powell
Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener Publishers, c2002. 246 p.
HT1317.H86 2002 Main

Irele, Abiola.
The African imagination : literature in Africa & the Black diaspora /
F. Abiola Irele
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001
PL8010.I74 2001 Main

Jones, Edward L. The Black diaspora: colonization of
colored people. Seattle, Wash. : E.L. Jones, 1989.
DT18.J66 1989 Main

Kiple, Kenneth F. Another dimension to the Black
diaspora: diet, disease, and racism. Cambridge ;
New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981.
RA448.5.N4 K56 Anthropology

Lemelle, Sidney J. Imagining home: class, culture, and
nationalism in the African diaspora. London ; New
York : Verso, 1994.
DT16.5.I4 1994 Main

--- Pan-Africanism for beginners. New York : Writers
and Readers, 1992.
DT31.L4 1992 Main

Matsuoka, Atsuko Karin.
Ghosts and shadows : construction of identity and community in an
African diaspora / Atsuko Matsuoka and John Sorenson
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2001
F1035.E88.M38 2001 Main, Anthropology

Murphy, Joseph M. Working the spirit: ceremonies of the
African diaspora. Boston : Beacon Press, 1994.
BL2490.M87 1994 Main, Moffitt

New African diasporas / edited by Khalid Koser
London ; New York : Routledge, 2003. 163 p
DT16.5.N49 2003 Anthropology

Oyewo, A. Toriola.
Essays in African diaspora.
Ibadan, Nigeria : Jator Pub. Co., 1999.
DT16.5.O97 1999 Main

Phiri, Kings Mbacazwa, 1949-
History and the past, present, and future of black people / by Kings M.
Phiri. [Zomba, Malawi] : University of Malawi, 2001
DT16.5.P48 2001 Main

Rethinking the African diaspora : the making of a Black Atlantic world
in the Bight of Benin and Brazil / editors, Kristin Mann and Edna G. Bay
London ; Portland, OR : F. Cass, 2001
DT16.5.R48 2001 Main
Table of Contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/2001028986.html

Segal, Ronald, 1932-
The black diaspora. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995.
E29.N3.S44 1995 Main

Segal, Ronald, 1932-
Islam's Black slaves : the other Black diaspora / Ronald Segal
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001
HT919.S45 2001 Main

Talking black : lesbians of African and Asian descent speak out /
edited by Valerie Mason-John. London : Cassell, 1995.
Women on women
HQ75.6.G7.T25 1995 Main

Traditional healing systems of the African diaspora:
ROOTS '85 conference proceedings. 2nd ed. Berkeley,
Calif. : ROOTS, 1988.
RA448.5.N4T7 1988 Anthropology

Walters, Ronald W. Pan Africanism in the African
diaspora: an analysis of modern Afrocentric
political movements. Detroit : Wayne State, 1993.
DT16.5.W35 1993 Main, Moffitt

Wilentz, Gay Alden. Binding cultures: Black women
writers in Africa and the diaspora. Bloomington :
Indiana University Press, 1992.
PS153.N5W48 1992 Main, Moffitt

Women in Africa and the African diaspora / edited by
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn. Washington, D.C. : Howard
University Press, 1987.
HQ1787.W65 1987 Main, Moffitt

Working slavery, pricing freedom : perspectives from the Caribbean,
Africa and the African diaspora / edited by Verene A. Shepherd ;
editorial advisory committee, Roy Augier ... [et al.]
New York : Palgrave, 2002, c2001
HT1105.C37.W67 2002 Main

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COPS: THE RISE OF CRIME, DISORDER AND AUTHORITARIAN POLICING

systemic_anomaly — Sat, 25 Oct 2003 07:36:34 GMT

Introduction

COPS: THE RISE OF CRIME, DISORDER AND AUTHORITARIAN POLICING

Last year, New York City’s famous former mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, a proponent of tough punishments for minor infractions and hard-line policing without civilian oversight—the zero-tolerance approach to law enforcement—was invited by Mexico City’s progressive mayor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to consult with the city government about its efforts to bring crime under control. Although it was not the principal cause of New York’s drop in crime in the 1990s, Giuliani’s program, which assured impunity for the police and promised harsh punishment for the urban homeless, minor drug users, minorities and youth, has become a model of urban policing being emulated around the world. But in Mexico City, this was particularly strange. Why would an advocate of unsupervised policing with no civilian review be hired to advise a leftist mayor in a city where the police are known to be responsible for half the crime? Why would an advocate of controlling crime by arresting poor vagrants be hired to advise a city where organized violence emerges from elite cartels and state corruption rackets? Giuliani’s arrival in Mexico City draws attention to a bewildering paradox of mistaken origins and misguided solutions—a paradox that guides this NACLA Report on Crime, Disorder and Authoritarian Policing.

Violent crime is, indeed, a serious problem in Mexico City and throughout the Americas. In Caracas, Mark Ungar reports, homicides doubled between 1998 and 2000, and rose by another 65% between 2001 and 2002. In cities as diverse as Kingston, Jamaica and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, many citizens have willingly ceded law enforcement authority to armed gangs who have shown they can provide a semblance of law and order—or its bloody stand—in, revenge. In Mexico City, violent crime rates have stabilized at unconscionably high rates after rising nearly four-fold over the previous two decades

Alongside this rise in crime—and with accelerating intensity since the violent events of September 11, 2001—punitive policing agendas and hard-line security practices have come to define the role of local government in cities across the Americas. Punitive policing has set the tone for social control. Governments have suspended limits on the coercive powers of police, the actions of parastatal vigilantes and the authority of state security forces. Torture, militarized policing, lethal force, detention without trial and denial of citizenship to criminalized immigrant populations have increasingly been deemed necessary, or have become mainstream policy options even in long established democracies.

In this context, this report will examine the intensification of human rights abuses by law enforcement and security forces in the Americas. It will examine current regional tendencies in police brutality, militarization and impunity, and attempt to explain how and why these local practices of authoritarian security have come to cross borders, take advantage of crises, make new allies and become a dominant hemispheric trend. Police brutality, vigilante thuggery and coercive security practices in some ways reflect the legacies of military dictatorships that ravaged Latin American civil society from the 1960s through the 1980s; and violence is no doubt also shaped by the legacies of slavery, inquisition, colonialism, machismo, paternalism and foreign intervention in Latin America and the Caribbean. But new trends, fears and conflicts have reanimated these past forms of repression in very new ways.

The origin of repressive practices has shifted from the operation of military-bureaucratic regimes to a fractured and diverse set of transnationally articulated urban police forces, unaccountable state-security services, and illegal arms dealers and protection rackets. This mix of old forms and new frameworks of corrupt policing, biased protection and social vengeance constitute a kind of dispersed multi-centered dictatorship, a matrix of “authoritarian security” that threatens to undermine the fabric of emerging democracies.

In this context, we ask why authoritarian security has become so global, appropriating specific cultures, ideologies and histories in order to legitimize and justify a roughly uniform type of hegemony. We further ask how the recent patterns of abuse and brutality have been transferred among distant cities and countries. Finally we ask what dynamics encourage police impunity and the tendency to objectify and brutalize certain spaces, peoples and forms of citizenship, and what dynamics can be leveraged to mobilize change, reduce impunity and democratize the sphere of policing, security and justice.

The trend toward authoritarian security and policing is all the more perplexing for the following reasons. First, public fears of crime are often unrelated to actual rates of crime, and soar after the politicians declare a crime war, indicating that political, journalistic and police agendas—not real crime rates—produce fear and set the terms of law enforcement. Second, certain longstanding activities have only recently been defined as criminal. This change has artificially inflated official crime rates attributed to marginal populations, while prosecution of white-collar crimes or elites involved in corruption or violence remains very low across the hemisphere. Third, many criminologists have demonstrated that as crime wars intensify and civilian controls are reduced, police become more likely to become corrupted, to participate in crimes rather than prevent them. As crime control becomes “militarized,” police are more likely to become involved in drug smuggling, gun running and homicides.

Finally hard-line urban security politics are often counterproductive, inflaming socio-economic divisions, creating hostility between citizens and police, infusing public spheres and public spaces with violence and fear, foreclosing political options and modes of participation and undermining those officials—judges, prosecutors, congress/council members, public defenders—who are supposed to control policing policy, monitor security practice, and provide legitimacy and stability to governance.

Current prevailing understandings of the origins of crime and violence have not been able to grapple with the paradoxes of policing and security. Maybe this is why progressives in Mexico City can be seduced by authoritarian policing remedies such as those proposed by Giuliani. Faced with these paradoxes, there are two broad categories of explanations—one favored by conservatives and one by leftists—both of which tie the rise of authoritarian policing to previous increases of the crime rate.

For many conservatives, crime—from street crime to drug traffic and terrorism—can be traced to cultural (i.e. psychological or behavioral) rejection of hegemonic norms, modern self-discipline and/or family values. From this point of view, the increase in brutal policing and security tactics represent necessary responses to threats posed to the cultural norms of wage labor, sobriety and free-market capitalism, as well as to the values of secularism, individualism, the sanctity of private property and/or the legitimacy of state-affirmed faith. These threats are seen as fused with the phenomena of drug trafficking, political violence and/or deviant desire. Conservatives identify these kinds of criminal deviancies with the cultures of particular marginalized groups in urban zones that bear identifiable racial-ethnic or social profiles. This conservative perspective is terrified by the prospect of contact with these criminalized populations in urban space and the public sphere, and sees intermingling, integration, and immigration as forms of violence and as menaces to be secured. It sees geopolitics, urban multiculturalism, issues of migration and urban race-ethnic relations as symptoms of a “clash of civilizations.” Even working classes or youth populations that are not racially marked can—and do—become targeted as behavioral menaces in this framework.

Meanwhile, for much of the left, crime and violence are typically attributed to economic inequality or marginalization. Unemployment, commercial globalization, fiscal austerity, privatization and the coerced degradation of labor are seen as leaving the poor vulnerable to the temptations of drug trafficking, the ideologies of radical terrorists and the machinations of corrupt policemen. In this perspective, more sympathy is granted to the marginalized than in the culturalist view. Nevertheless, this perspective displaces debates around security and policing onto critiques of neoliberal economic policy, leaving the impression that crime and police violence are unavoidable reflections of inequality and will “naturally” only get worse until the entire socioeconomic order is transformed. This attitude can slip back into the romantic but racist notion that the poor are thus “naturally” criminals/rebels. So we end up, analytically, back where we started.

Many of the articles in this report strive to develop an alternative perspective on the origins of crime and violence. These essays suggest that increasingly hard-line policing and security tactics are not reflex responses to the actions of the desperate poor, or to cultural clashes or economic inequalities. They argue that authoritarian security practices are not driven necessarily by the dynamics of globalization, migration or neoliberalism, but that new urban policing tactics—and the transnationally circulating security paradigms in which they are embedded—are the products of specific arrangements of state and local institutions, embedded in contemporary international authoritarian political trends that are fostered or taken up by those who control urban areas. From this point of view, the political essence of new policing/security practices lies in the fact that they represent a common set of objectives and interests instrumental to maintaining elite control. Urban elites are trying to manage the contradictions of a highly volatile neoliberal global order that constantly triggers crises, rendering elite legitimacy tenuous at best.

This trend cuts across the categorical divide between democratic and authoritarian regimes; it is implemented by control groups or regimes whose mandate is weak, fractured and unreconciled with other ascendant norms of democratization, human rights strengthening and the inauguration of comprehensive multilateral institutions of justice. And in the post-Cold War, free-market era, very few regimes of social control groups of any type seem to have a firm mandate for intervening in society, except through ever-escalating projects of punishment and militarized criminalization.

Politicians and government officials use fear of crime to win elections, increase government expenditures and discredit political opposition. Such campaigns are most successful when they play on public fears of particular target populations. A symbiotic relationship then develops between politicians and the media and becomes a catalyst for contrived crises. The media echoes the discourse of politicians during election campaigns, while increased media coverage of an issue increases pressures on politicians to provide solutions. Increased coverage and sensationalization of crime, along with a linkage implied or portrayed between crime and race or ethnicity, intensify the boundaries drawn between majority and minority communities.

Public officials take their cue from the media, targeting populations that have a negative image in the public mind. The media, in turn, echo political discourse. As political scientist Robert Jervis puts it, “an issue is considered newsworthy to the extent that it is being treated by the media, and they and politicians take their cues from each other.”[1] Crime panics increase support for politicians who favor repressive legislation. The political scramble to avoid being outflanked on the crime issue then leads to a drift, or rush, to adopt right-wing policies as the major political actors try to outdo one another in their toughness, according to the narrow terms of this new populist, paternalist, punitive agenda. Political convergence on a hard-line approach to crime puts pressure on police to show high rates of arrest, accomplished by targeting weak, negatively constructed populations.

In New York City, for instance, prosecutor Rudolph Giuliani—Mayor López Obrador’s recent guest in Mexico City—used the crime scare to attack his 1993 election opponent, liberal black incumbent mayor David Dinkins, as being soft on crime despite the fact that crime and homicide rates had radically declined as Dinkins implemented community, organizational, technological and civilian controls on the police during his last two years in office, an achievement which Giuliani later took credit for, and misidentified as a victory for his repressive “zero-tolerance” model.

Giuliani’s law-and-order campaign coincided with President Clinton’s Omnibus Crime Bill, announced in his State of the Union address and debated in Congress, as well as several sensational murders nationwide. Media stories about crime flooded airwaves, and blacks were shown as perpetrators proportionally three or four times more often than whites. One careful investigation found that the amount of stories in which blacks appeared as criminals increased 23% between 1990 and 1997, while actual crime rates dropped.[2] The combined effect of political campaigns and media saturation led to a national crime panic.

In New York, a crack scare was used to terrify New Yorkers, as Robert Stutman, the former director of the DEA’s New York office observed with satisfaction: As far as the New York media was concerned, crack was the hottest combat reporting story to come along since the end of the Vietnam war.[3] Nationally, fear of crime jumped from an average of around 7% in June 1993 to 52% in August 1994.[4] In New York 84% of those surveyed in 1994 believed crime rates had risen throughout the year, when in fact they had fallen.[5] Giuliani, and his new police chief William J. Bratton, played on the public’s fears when they introduced what became known as the zero-tolerance approach to crime in 1994. The idea, based on George Kelling and James Q. Wilson’s “broken window” theory, was that if one attacked crimes of lesser seriousness, one could prevent crimes of greater significance from occurring. In practice, this meant greater resources allocated to the arrest and imprisonment of those accused of minor crimes, such as jumping subway turnstiles, or victimless crimes such as prostitution and drug use, rather than to those of greater significance like murder or rape.

Within a year the media began to celebrate New York City’s falling crime rates, ignoring the fact that they had been falling for three years, and resulting more from Dinkins’ community, technological, and institutional approach that fostered greater oversight of and accountability for the police, rather than Giuliani’s overtly racial “street gang” approach to policing, or his repressive “broken windows” campaign that collectively criminalized entire communities. Giuliani’s zero-tolerance approach has been erroneously evaluated and treated as a model, imitated in and imported by cities around the world. Yet, the role of zero tolerance policies in reducing New York City crime rates was far from certain. Between 1991 and 1998, crime fell at equal rates in cities like San Diego and Boston, which pursued problem-solving and community policing strategies, falling 76.4% in San Diego, 70.6% in New York and 69.3% in Boston. Crime rates also fell in San Antonio, Houston and even in Los Angeles, a city plagued by scandals, low morale and a drop in arrest rates. Rudolph Giuliani’s zero-tolerance approach to crime did, however, lead to soaring arrest rates among racial minorities, immigrants, youth, and the homeless, accused of nonviolent and victimless crimes.

While it is, at best, debatable whether Giuliani can be credited with the drop in New York’s crime rate, one thing is certain: Zero tolerance did coincide with a sharp rise in the number of individuals killed by police officers’ firearms discharges, or while in police custody. New York Police Department statistics show a 34.8% increase in civilians shot dead in 1994, as compared to 1993—from 23 to 31—and the new rate did not decline until 1997. Over the same period, the figures show a 53.3% increase in civilians who died in police custody—from 15 to 23—and an increase in the number of civilians injured from officers’ firearms discharged during the same period. This latter figure rose from 54 in 1993, to 60 in 1994, to 74 in 1996. Among the cases reviewed by Amnesty International, “nearly all of the victims in the cases of deaths in custody (including shootings)…were members of racial minorities.”

New York City also experienced a sharp rise in police brutality complaints and lawsuits during this period. By 1998 the number of brutality complaints was triple that of 1988.[6] Damages paid by the city to alleged victims of police misconduct rose from $7 million in 1988 to more than $24 million in 1994, to $97 million between 1994 and 1997.[7] Once again, more than three-fourths of the complaints were lodged by African American or Latino victims against white police officers.

A similar intensification of human rights abuses by law enforcement and security forces has been documented throughout the hemisphere. In Mexico and Brazil the police often work hand in hand with organized crime. In São Paulo, in the 1990s over one quarter of murders were committed by police. Ungar notes that in La Paz the police tortured members of the Permanent Assembly of Human Rights, while in Caracas 40% of civilians who resisted police were murdered. In Jamaica, John Rapley observes, citizens have concluded that “drug dons” do a better job of law enforcement than the police and maintain the safest neighborhoods. In La Paz, Caracas, Lima and Buenos Aires violent clashes between unarmed protesters and police have led to hundreds of deaths. Yet even leftist politicians continue to call for zero-tolerance policing.

Crime wars can be quite successful in generating fear, reinforcing elite power and displacing responsibility despite the tremendous social cost. What distinguishes crime and drug wars is their ability to create a generalized anxiety which has neither measurable effects nor clear solutions. Politicians can then reassure the same public they have frightened, thus appearing extraordinarily capable.

There is some cause for optimism, however. In settings where the militaristic right has self destructed (Argentina), where authoritarian parties have become associated with foreign meddling (Brazil) or where a left party is assured of victory (Quebec), the political language of paranoia and revenge has begun to be challenged by a sober and hopeful alternative approach to crime, couched in the language of democracy and citizenship. In these settings leftist politicians have initiated innovative police reforms aimed at networks of corruption, money laundering, arms trafficking and police racketeering, not individual minority youth or neighborhoods. Here security policy is focused on prevention rather than punishment, with the goal of building security through investment in human capital, human rights and the infrastructure of equality. This reassessment of the origins and effects of violence, police practices and security agendas by academics, social movements and state actors in Latin America reminds us that zero-tolerance authoritarian modes of policing are not the only policy choices available.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Cathy Schneider is associate professor of international studies at American University and director of the Americas program in Comparative and Regional Studies. She is a member of NACLA’s editorial board. Her publications include Shantytown Protest in Pinochet’s Chile, Temple University Press, 1995.

Paul Amar is visiting professor of political science and Co-Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the Federal University Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro. He is also co-organizer of “Police Planet: Authoritarian Security Trends and Democratic Alternatives,” an international conference being held in Rio in March 2004.

NOTES
1. Robert Jervis, System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997).
2. Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki, The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
3. Robert Stutman, Dead on Delivery: Inside the Drug Wars, Straight from the Street (Boston: Little Brown, 1992).
4. Katherine Beckett, Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997); Stephen Braun and Judy Pasternak, “A Nation with Peril on its Mind,” Los Angeles Times, February 19, 1994.
5. CBS News/New York Times, New York City Mayoral Election Exit Polls, November 1993.
6. Human Rights Watch, Shielded From Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1998).
7. Amnesty International, Police Brutality and Excessive Force in the New York City Police Department (Washington: Amnesty International, 1996).

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Race and Racism in the Americas

systemic_anomaly — Sat, 25 Oct 2003 07:34:16 GMT

“Racial Politics, Racial Identities,” the third report of our “Race and Racism in the Americas” series, explores the ways oppressed and excluded groups of the Americas, principally Afro-Latinos and indigenous peoples, have responded to oppression and exclusion with political mobilization and self-affirming forms of expression. There is a broad range of politics on these pages: the “rising up” of indigenous peoples, painstaking transnational Afro-Latino coalition building and lobbying, the struggles of indigenous women both within and on behalf of their communities, and the sometimes surprising turns of U.S. ethnic politics.

There are also descriptions of how racial identity has also given rise to processes of affirmation in a number of non- or pre-political ways. Peter Wade, for example, writes of how some Afro-Colombians have created, reinforced and expressed a racial identity through music and dance. Margot Olavarría traces out a similar process among Afro-Cuban youth who are using hip-hop as an instrument for social criticism. In both countries, very different forms of musical expression—from salsa and vallenato to rap—have helped people carve out spaces that are social refuges and often serve as a platform for cultural politics.

Identities based on color, biological descent and culture clearly intersect in the Americas. Sheila Walker makes a cogent distinction between blackness and Africanity: “Most Afro-Brazilians...have maintained a great deal of obviously African culture because the African presence remains an integral, defining and acknowledged component of Brazilian culture.” But not all Afro-Brazilians are black; a wide variety of skin color can exist even in the same Brazilian family. Nonetheless, she points out, Brazil is no “racial democracy”; people of visible African descent have significantly less access to social and economic privilege. This has given rise to a black political movement, and this movement, she writes, may be leading to Brazil’s evolution toward a white and black U.S. racial model.

Michael Turner applauds that conscious evolution and the adoption of the term “Afro-Latino” by last year’s UN Conference on Race and Racism. “Official acceptance of the term should be understood more for its political implications than for narrow academic appropriateness or accuracy,” argues Turner. A clear Afro-Latino identity is a necessary precursor, he argues, for a politics of resistance and affirmation.

This point is echoed in Juan Flores’ discussion of U.S. Latino identity and politics: Especially in New York, he maintains, many young Latinos feel a strong affiliation with African-Americans. “In the case of Puerto Ricans,” he writes, “this perspective entails not only an emphasis on Afro-Boricua heritages but, because of the decades-long experience of close interaction with African-Americans, an identification and solidarity with American blacks....” In some cases then, a black identity can become a powerful construct for U.S. Latino politics.

Indigenous politics turns out to be quite different. We get a sense of the difference from Guillermo Delgado’s discussion of “territory” and the indigenous connection to the land—not lands which can be divided, apportioned, bought and sold, Delgado insists, but the land or territory, the basis of social and political life. Territory for indigenous peoples is a social, ecological and political construct that gives definition to a cultural identity. The debate over “autonomy” that emerged, for example, in Mexico, is closely linked to questions regarding the integral connections of peoples to their territories. “Such proposals,” says Delgado, “focus on communities that struggle to maintain, or to reinvent themselves using their ethnic and social memory.”

Resistance to racial oppression can bring greater awareness of other forms of domination. The many expressions of indigenous feminism emerging in Mexico and Guatemala are examples of this awareness. Aída Hernández Castillo details the struggles of Maya women “to change those ‘traditional’ elements that exclude and oppress them.” Identity-based politics, then, has become a force in the Americas, and a key part of the struggle for a more just and inclusive world.

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