Politics, Rights, and Representation: Gender and Racial Equality in the United States, France and South Africa
Politics, Rights, and Representation: Gender and Racial Equality in the United States, France and South Africa, is Sponsored by the Center for Gender Studies, cosponsored by CSRPC, October 14-17, 1999. See the CGS site for details.
The Center for Latin American Studies is very pleased to announce a major conference on MESTIZAJE/CREOLITE: TOPOLOGIES OF RACE IN THE CIRCUM-CARIBBEAN, OCTOBER 2-3, 1999 at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, 1100 E. 57th Street Room S118 (Regenstein Library)
The conference investigates the production and location of Creole identity in the Circum-Caribbean, drawing on Francophone figures of the New World >Creole and Hispanic idioms of mestizaje (race mixture). Bringing together several traditions of scholarly research on creolization and cultural hybridity in such fields as history, anthropology, linguistics, literary theory and ethnomusicology, we envision a productive engagement with three distinct themes:
* Genealogies: the role of the Creole in the making of national identities as well as the emergence of notions of creolite in the metropole and colonies from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries
* Ideology and Practice: creole self-fashioning in such contexts as class formation, nationalism, and various theaters of the public sphere, ranging >from popular healing to public procession
* Creole Grammars: the analysis of language and music in relation to the >social dynamics of cultural "syncretism" and hybridity.
We are interested in how the categories of le creole and lo criollo/mestizo are semantically marked in bounded cultural domains such as food, kinship, music, and, domesticity, and how they are implicitly configured in quotidian routines, focusing, for example, on how notions of creoleness mark local regimes of value as opposed to the production of commodoties for the world market.
Finally, a comparative perspective on Hispanic, Franco- and Anglophone colonial histories and cultural forms will frame these investigations and debates.
