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Classically Cuban Concert Together: In Memory Of Carlos Averhoff, Sr., Carlos Averhoff Sr., Carlos Averhoff Jr.

Cuban Research Institute Events

The Cuban Research Institute is pleased to announce the 13th installment of its annual concert series.This year's concert will be dedicated to Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz, in memory of the renowned Cuban saxophonist and former FIU music professor, Carlos Averhoff, Sr. The event will be directed by his son, Carlos Averhoff, Jr., in collaboration with artists who performed alongside Averhoff, Sr., including Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Brian Lynch, Malena Burke, Federico Brito, and others.

When Cuban Political Deportees Turned African Ethnographers, Benita Sampedro Vizcaya

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This presentation will address an array of links — trajectories, journeys and passages — between the islands of Cuba and Fernando Poo (between the West-central African Atlantic and the Caribbean), during the second half of the nineteenth century. These islands are neither points of ending nor points of origin; they circumscribe the Atlantic, an ocean which touches upon multiple insular and coastal experiences, narratives, histories and, in this case, ethnographies. By the 1850s, a number of West African localities had already begun to transcend their original function as a point of departure for the slave trade, becoming instead a site …

Tell My Mother I Gone To Cuba: Stories Of Early Twentieth-Century Migration From Barbados, Sharon Milagro Marshall

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Barbadians were among the thousands of British West Indians who migrated to Cuba in the early twentieth century in search of work. They were drawn there by employment opportunities fueled largely by US investment in Cuban sugar plantations. Tell My Mother I Gone to Cuba: Stories of Early Twentieth-Century Migration from Barbados is their story. The migrants were citizens of the British Empire, and their ill-treatment in Cuba led to a diplomatic tiff between British and Cuban authorities.The author draws from contemporary newspaper articles, official records, journals and books to set the historical contexts which initiated this intra-Caribbean migratory wave. …

The Power Of Race In Cuba Racial Ideology And Black Consciousness During The Revolution, Danielle Pilar Clealand

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In The Power of Race in Cuba, Danielle Pilar Clealand analyzes racial ideologies that negate the existence of racism and their effect on racial progress and activism through the lens of Cuba. Since 1959, Fidel Castro and the Cuban government have married socialism and the ideal of racial harmony to create a formidable ideology that is an integral part of Cubans' sense of identity and their perceptions of race and racism in their country. While the combination of socialism and a colorblind racial ideology is particular to Cuba, strategies that paint a picture of equality of opportunity and deflect the …

Memory Adn/Memoria Dna Experimental Flamenco With Niurca Márquez, Niurca Marquez, Jose Manuel Dominquez, Jose Lius De La Paz

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Memory ADN/Memoria DNA is an exploration of cultural memory and how it is passed down from one generation to the next. It is a voyage through the sayings, customs and stereotypes, at times filled with humor, at times nostalgic, that explores the idea of what is"Spanish"from the perspective of a particular group of Latino immigrants, namely Caribbean and coastal. It is a work of experimental flamenco that combines dance, theater and film and deconstructs the forms of flamenco music and dance. Join us for this compelling performance and fascinating experience.

Niurca Márquez is an artist/researcher with a wide range as …

Memory Adn/ Memoria Dna- Experimental Flamenco With Niurca Marquez, Initiative For Spanish And Mediterranean Studies, Florida International University

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Memory ADN/Memoria DNA is an experimental flamenco event that explores cultural memory and its passing between generations.

Among the artists involved are Niurca Marquez, Jose Manuel Dominguez, and Jose Luis de la Paz.

December 1 ,2016 1 6:30 PM | Coral Gables Museum 1285 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables

Reading Cuba: An Interdisciplinary Conference On Cuban And Cuban-American Literature, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

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The Department of Modern Languages and the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University are pleased to announce the conference Reading Cuba. Moving beyond the study of literature as an isolated cultural product, this conference proposes to examine the complex connections between culture and social praxis in Cuban and Cuban-American literature. In the spirit of reading literary texts from an interdisciplinary perspective, conference participants will reevaluate Cuban texts as spaces of interactions where aesthetic, social, and cultural elements collide.

Keynote speakers included Dr. Eliana Rivero, University of Arizona and Dr. Rafael Rojas, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, Mexico

Rescuing Our Roots: The African Anglo-Caribbean Diaspora In Contemporary Cuba, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

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This flyer presents the event "Rescuing Our Roots: The African Anglo-Caribbean Diaspora in Contemporary Cuba", a book presentation by author Andrea J. Queeley, associate professor in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies and the African and African Diaspora Studies Program at FIU. The event was presented and sponsored by the FIU Cuban Research Institute.

Writing Secrecy In Caribbean Freemasonry, Book Presentation By Author Jossianna Arroyo Martínez, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

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This flyer promotes the event "Writing Secrecy in Caribbean Freemasonry Book Presentation by Author Jossianna Arroyo Martínez" sponsored by the School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University. The event was held at Books & Books in Coral Gables.

El Super, Film Screening And Panel Discussion, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

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This flyer promotes the screening of the classic film El Super (1979), cosponsored by the FIU African and African Diaspora Studies Program, Center for the Humanities in an Urban Environment, Exile Studies Program, and WPBT2.

¿ Jamaicanos O Jamaiquinos? Respectable Blackness And Its Implications For Anti-Racist Activism In 21st-Century Cuba , Lecture By Andrea Queeley, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

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This flyer promotes the event "¿ Jamaicanos o jamaiquinos? Respectable Blackness and Its Implications for Anti-Racist Activism in 21st-Century Cuba Lecture by Andrea Queeley" hosted by the Cuban Research Institute.

The African Roots Of Cuban Culture : Artistic And Religious Expressions, A Symposium, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

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This flyer promotes the event "The African Roots of Cuban Culture: Artistic and Religious Expressions, A Symposium", cosponsored by the Frost Art Museum and the African & African Diaspora Studies Program at FlU.

African Musical Thought In Cuba , Lecture By Eurydice Losada, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

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This flyer promotes the event "African Musical Thought in Cuba Lecture by Eurydice Losada" Cosponsored by African and African Diaspora Studies (AADS) at FlU.

Ninth Conference On Cuban And Cuban-American Studies "Dispersed Peoples: The Cuban And Other Diasporas", Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

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This flyer promotes the Ninth Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies "Dispersed Peoples: The Cuban and Other Diasporas" , cosponsored by FlU's Cuban Research Institute, FlU African and African Diaspora Studies Program, Center for the Humanities in an Urban Environment, Exile Studies Program, and WPBT2.

This event was held May 23, 2013 - May 25, 2013.

The Cuban Diaspora In The 21st Century, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

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This flyer promotes the event "The Cuban Diaspora in the 21st Century", which was held at Ermita de la Caridad del Cobre on October 10,2011. This will be a presentation of a special commisison report on the subject of the Cuban Diaspora and its potential role in the future development of Cuban and associated challenges. Members and co-authors of the report include Uva de Aragon and Juan Antonio Blanco of Florida International University, and Jorge Duany of the University of Puerto Rico.

Guantanamo: A Working-Class History Between Empire And Revolution, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

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This flyer promotes a book presentation by Jana K. Lipman, Ph.D., an assistant Professor of History at Tulane University. Lipman's book reveals the story of the women and men who worked on the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay. This lecture was held at Books &Books in Coral Gables on April 7,2010.