African Studies Center

Bobby Vaughn Presentation on 'Talking Diaspora: Doing Ethnographic Fieldwork on Afro-Mexico'

Ethnic identity and what it means to be Afro-Mexican is the focus of Professor Vaughn's research and lecture. Sponsored by the UCLA Oral History Program, the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, the Chicano Studies Research Center, and the UCLA Department of History.

Bobby Vaughn is an anthropologist whose research is concerned with ethnic identity and its relationship to nationalist definitions of what it means to be Afro-Mexican.  He is the co-author of Afromexico: El pulso de la poblacion negra en Mexico and the author of articles that have appeared in Dialogo, Review of Black Political Economy, and the anthology Neither Enemies nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos.

Discussion with Dr. Vaughn to follow from 1 - 2 PM.

This presentation is also made possible by the James V. Mink Oral History Lecture Fund.

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Date: Friday, April 15, 2005

Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Room 135, Haines Hall
Bunche Center Library and Media Center
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095
United States

Cost: Free

For more information please contact

Alva Moore Stevenson
Tel: 310-825-4932
astevens@library.ucla.edu
www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/ohp/ohpindex.htm

Sponsor(s): Department of History, Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA Oral History Program, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.

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