>>
>>Subject: 2002 African Lecture Series
>>
>>PRESS  RELEASE  FOR  IMMEDIATE  RELEASE
>>
>>March 22, 2002
>>
>>Contact:
>>Aggo Akyea
>>608/274-7409
>><mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
>>
>>African Association of Madison, Inc. will present the first in the 2002
>>African Lecture Series on Friday,
>>April 5, 2002 at 7:00 PM in the new Red Gym located at 716 Langdon Street
>>Madison, WI near the Memorial Union.
>>
>>The lecture is by Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, Ph.D. from University of
>>Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of
>>Africology.   The title of the lecture is AFRICAN AND BLACK MIGRANTS IN
>>THE UNITED STATES: TIES THAT BIND.
>>
>>Over the past four centuries, the United States has received tens of
>>millions of black migrants from the
>>African continent and elsewhere in the Americas. In addition to the
>>original forced migration of the
>>population presently known as "African Americans," millions came from
>>Latin America, the Caribbean and
>>Africa it self.
>>
>>Patrick Bellegarde-Smith will raise and respond to the following questions:
>>
>>**  What has been the impact on the United States and on Afro-American
>>populations?
>>**  Where do these new peoples "fit' in the context of American racism?
>>**  Is there a new definition of black and white in the offing based on
>>Latin American standards?
>>**  What is the relationship that has evolved between various
>>African-derived ethnic groups in the United
>>States?
>>**  What does it mean in our new-fangled concerns for "multiculturalism."
>>
>>Patrick Bellegarde-Smith is a Haitian author who has written extensively
>>on issues of cultural identity in
>>the African Diaspora. He received his Ph.D. in international studies at
>>the American University in
>>Washington, D.C.
>>
>>The African Association of Madison, Inc., founded in 1991 serves as a
>>forum to unite in purpose, and bring
>>together people of African descent and friends of Africa in Madison and
>>Wisconsin in general. The
>>association seeks to promote and encourage the collective cultural,
>>social and economic welfare of
>>its membership and advance a medium to disseminate and share the rich and
>>diverse heritage and traditions of Africa with the Wisconsin community.
>>
>>This program is free and open to the public and is supported by the
>>Wisconsin Humanities Council, the
>>National Endowment for the Humanities, and individual donors.
>>
>># # # # # #
>>
>>=====
>>E. Aggo Akyea
>>
>>"... instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my
>>baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them."
>>WALDEN by Henry David Thoreau
>>
>>

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