Center for Latin American Studies

October 8, 2016 This afternoon educator workshop, conducted entirely in Spanish, examined the African Diaspora and runaway slave communities in Latin America. Specialists in Afro-Hispanic Literature John Maddox (University of Alabama-Birmingham) and Graciela Maglia (Instituto Caro y Cuervo) explored the African Diaspora in Latin America, Afro-Hispanic music, literature and culture. Representatives from a 300-year-old Afro-Colombian community of Palenque de San Basilio shared testimonies about their community, which descended from slave rebels. Dr. Maglia, who lived in the Caribbean for 10 years, led a hands-on session about Afro-Caribbean cuisine, where teachers learned how to cook a traditional dish.

This workshop followed an affiliated UAB Black Resistance and Negotiation colloquium on Friday, October 7.  This workshop was sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University, the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Alabama Humanities foundation (a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities).

Related Resources in the Lending Library

To request any of these items for FREE, please visit the CLAS Lending Library

• Donde nacen las aguas. Antología (Tierra Firme) (Spanish Edition) by Nicolas Guillen
• Summa Poetica by Nicolas Guillen
• Yoruba from Cuba: Selected Poems of Nicolás Guillén by Nicolas Guillen
• Cuentos Negros de Cuba (Spanish Edition) by Lydia Cabrera
• Black in Latin America by Henry Louis Gates
• Manuel Zapata Olivella collection