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The 8th annual Uncovering Connections: Cultural Endurance between Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean conference Will be held March 8-10, 2007 at Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY. The foci of the conference include:
• The intergenerational transmission of African culture (i.e. the role of parenting in the survival of African culture or documenting the knowledge and practices of elders in Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas)
• The retention of African culture and traditions (Africanisms) in the Caribbean and the Americas (i.e. spirituality, cultural norms, behaviors, patterns of speech, culinary arts, and aesthetic forms of expression whose roots are traceable to Africa)
• Instances of cultural unity and/or similarities among African people throughout the world
• The diverse mechanisms through which the transmission of African cultural knowledge has been disrupted (i.e. through colonization, enslavement, neo-colonialism, schooling etc)
• African culture as a source of understanding and action in the context of contemporary phenomena.
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