CONF: Africa's Legacy in Mexico, Los Angeles 4/10/96 (x H-Mexico)

Josef J. Barton (texbart@merle.acns.nwu.edu)
Fri, 5 Apr 1996 07:46:37 -0600

AFRICA'S LEGACY IN MEXICO

Wednesday, 10 April, 1996
UCLA Faculty Center
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

9:00 a.m. Welcoming Remarks: Assistant Carlos Manuel Haro
(UCLA - ISOP)

9:05 a.m. Juan Gomez-Quinones (UCLA)

9:15 a.m. Edgar Love (ECC)
"An Introduction to the Black Presence in Mexico"

9:30 a.m. Alvaro Ochoa Serrano (ECM)
"Africans in Mexico before Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran"

10:00 a.m. Maria Guadalupe Chavez Carbajal (UM)
"African Women in Colonial Michoacan"

10:40 a.m. Maria Guevara Sagines (UG)
Relacions Interetnicas en el Guanajuato Colonial"

12:00 p.m. Lunch

1:25 p.m. Irene Vasquez/Rhonda Gonzalez

1:30 p.m Arturo Chamorro Escalante (ECM)
"African Influences in Mexican Music"

2:00 p.m. David Maciel (UNM)
"The Afromestizo in Mexico's Film"

2:30 p.m. Malinali Meza Herrera (ULP)
"Migrantes Afromestizos de Guerrero en los Estados

Unidos"

3:10 p.m. Panel discussion

Closing Remarks Juan Gomez-Quinones

*For additional information contact:
Dr. Juan Gomez-Quinones, History Department, UCLA, tel (310)825-
4362, Fax (310)206-9630
Irene Vasquez, vasquez@histr.sscnet.ucla.edu