Prepared by the late Dr. George A. Priestley, founder of the Afrolatin@ Project and Director of Latin American Studies, C.U.N.Y.-Queens College for the “Encuentros-Encounters” dialogue. The first of a series of conversations between African-Americans and Latin Americans in Nashville, Tennessee, to foster stronger communication and eliminate tensions between the two communities. Fisk University, April 19, 2003.
The Carney Latin American Solidarity Archive (CLASA) at University of Detroit Mercy hosts programs at the McNichols Campus in Detroit, Michigan. Here is a summary of the events from fall 2018. Learn more at udmercy.edu/clasa.
Max VanBalgooy, "Ordinary People, Extraordinary Change" - Power of Great StoriesWilliam Hosley
From History News, 2013 "making historical thinking visible" "Through carefully crafted histories, the past can be a compelling and enthralling experience" "adopt an aspirational vision for improving society" "What impact
do you want to have on your community?"
The Carney Latin American Solidarity Archive (CLASA) at University of Detroit Mercy hosts programs at the McNichols Campus in Detroit, Michigan. Here is a summary of the events from fall 2018. Learn more at udmercy.edu/clasa.
Max VanBalgooy, "Ordinary People, Extraordinary Change" - Power of Great StoriesWilliam Hosley
From History News, 2013 "making historical thinking visible" "Through carefully crafted histories, the past can be a compelling and enthralling experience" "adopt an aspirational vision for improving society" "What impact
do you want to have on your community?"
It seems there’s a larger and larger disconnect between the Twin Cities and rural Minnesota in terms of the economy, politics, and just plain lifestyle. Former Star Tribune writer Bob Franklin points out a few reasons he’s found over the years why rural Minnesota shouldn’t be discounted.
The White Paper titled “Diversity and Inclusion in Early Care and Education”, released during the NAEYC Conference held in Dallas, Texas examines how changing demographics calls for a greater tolerance and understanding of varying cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The Council for Professional Recognition supports all efforts to bring diversity and inclusion into every early care setting.
Proyecto Afrolatin@- 2013 Lista de Eventos Notables Para Afrolatin@sThe_Afrolatino_Project
Este documento es una lista de los eventos del ano 2013 que el Proyecto Afrolatin@ considera mas notables para la comunidad Afrolatin@/ Afrodescendiente dentro de la diaspora. Estamos seguro que hay otros eventos, largos y pequenos pero todo importante para seguir luchando para la inclusion Afrolatin@.
This document is a summary of our most important accomplishments as an organization for 2013 and includes a summary of our public programming for 2014.
Mobile Banking, MicroFinance and Economic Development in Latin America and th...The_Afrolatino_Project
Presentation given at Bank of New York Mellon for Latino Heritage Month 2013 in collaboration with Bank of NY Mellon and New Horizon Investments/ The Garifuna Coalition
The Afrolatin@ Project 2013 List of Notable Events for Afrolatin@'sThe_Afrolatino_Project
This list documents the events of 2013 which the Afrolatin@ Project considers to be the most noteworthy for Afrolatin@s We are sure there were many other events both small and large but all important to continuing the push for inclusion of afrolatin@s
It seems there’s a larger and larger disconnect between the Twin Cities and rural Minnesota in terms of the economy, politics, and just plain lifestyle. Former Star Tribune writer Bob Franklin points out a few reasons he’s found over the years why rural Minnesota shouldn’t be discounted.
The White Paper titled “Diversity and Inclusion in Early Care and Education”, released during the NAEYC Conference held in Dallas, Texas examines how changing demographics calls for a greater tolerance and understanding of varying cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The Council for Professional Recognition supports all efforts to bring diversity and inclusion into every early care setting.
Proyecto Afrolatin@- 2013 Lista de Eventos Notables Para Afrolatin@sThe_Afrolatino_Project
Este documento es una lista de los eventos del ano 2013 que el Proyecto Afrolatin@ considera mas notables para la comunidad Afrolatin@/ Afrodescendiente dentro de la diaspora. Estamos seguro que hay otros eventos, largos y pequenos pero todo importante para seguir luchando para la inclusion Afrolatin@.
This document is a summary of our most important accomplishments as an organization for 2013 and includes a summary of our public programming for 2014.
Mobile Banking, MicroFinance and Economic Development in Latin America and th...The_Afrolatino_Project
Presentation given at Bank of New York Mellon for Latino Heritage Month 2013 in collaboration with Bank of NY Mellon and New Horizon Investments/ The Garifuna Coalition
The Afrolatin@ Project 2013 List of Notable Events for Afrolatin@'sThe_Afrolatino_Project
This list documents the events of 2013 which the Afrolatin@ Project considers to be the most noteworthy for Afrolatin@s We are sure there were many other events both small and large but all important to continuing the push for inclusion of afrolatin@s
Letter to Colombian Congress re Raizal ethnocide (San Andres) -signed without...The_Afrolatino_Project
A copy of a letter, prepared before the ICJ, Hague Determination, addressed to the Colombian Government, the Colombian Congress and some Human Rights offices
role of women and girls in various terror groupssadiakorobi2
Women have three distinct types of involvement: direct involvement in terrorist acts; enabling of others to commit such acts; and facilitating the disengagement of others from violent or extremist groups.
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‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
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George A. Priestley, PhD Ten minute talk at Encuentros/Encounters Race Relations Institute, Fisk University 2003
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2. Un gran saludo a mis compañeros y compañeras de Nashville:
My sincerest thanks to the Race Relations Institute at Fisk, the Latin American Center at
Vanderbilt and all other co-organizers for inviting me to share some personal experiences
relative to our conversation on African-American and Latino relations.
As someone who is one hundred percent black and one hundred percent Latino, I believe
that I have some insights on the subject matter that Dr. Irma McClaurin has brought us
here to discuss. The speakers who preceded me spoke eloquently about the recent and
substantial arrival of Mexicans, Colombians, Central Americans and others to Tennessee.
In other words they focused on the tensions caused by recently arrived Latinos to the
state. Others spoke to the issue of stereotypes that African-Americans have of Latinos
and vice-versa. Yet, another speaker focused on the harmony that exists amongst Latinos,
whites and blacks, suggesting that there is no discrimination in Tennessee or at least in
Nashville.
All of the above descriptions, analyses and appreciations of the issues facing AfricanAmericans and Latinos are important starting points of this most exciting and necessary
conversation, but we must enrich our perspectives by grounding our views in ethnohistory, global politics and economics. This perspective has proved useful to me in
understanding issues of culture, race, and citizenship in the Republic of Panama. For
example, as a second generation Panamanian of West Indian descent, I understand how
the Latino emigrants feel in the midst of a country where English is the dominant
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3. language; Protestantism, the dominant religion, and where race, color and ethnicity are
important social markers of exclusion. As a black person, I have experienced racism and
discrimination in the Republic of Panama and in the former segregated Canal Zone
controlled by the United States for most of the 20th century.
My immigrant grandparents and parents were Protestants, black and English-speakers in
the Republic of Panama, a country that was predominantly Catholic, mestizo, and
Spanish-speaking. Like other black folks in Latin America we were relegated to perform
work that nobody else wanted. But unlike our black brothers who spoke Spanish and
were Catholic, we were deemed “incompatible” with the Panamanian nation. Those who
read us out of the nation seldom alluded to race; they said it was our status as unwanted
immigrants and the labor competition that we posed for native Panamanians. Was any of
this true? Yes, the issue was very complex. It was about recently arrived immigrants and
about labor competition. But it was also one of race, culture and ethnicity. AfricanAmericans in Tennessee have to understand the immigrant experience to relate to
Latinos, and the latter must examine his/her racial understandings, especially as it
concerns black people, in order to enable better cultural and racial relations.
In our ongoing conversation on Latino-African American issues, we must ask ourselves
whether the issue is about Latino immigrants, cultural differences or race. I submit that it
is about all three, and while African-Americans must strive to understand the dynamics of
emigration and the plight of those moving to El Norte, the Latino/a immigrant will have
to confront his/her notion about the racial paradigms that he/she brings to Nashville and
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4. how these notions hinder or foster social, cultural, economic and political relations with
African-Americans. Moreover, both groups should draw on the many models and
historical instances of cooperation between African-Americans and Latinos rather than on
the models of conflict, exacerbated by hysterical interpretations of the U.S. census and
stereotypes designed to sell commodities that artificially separate peoples that have much
in common.
Lastly, but not least important, we must add elements of global politics, political
economy and history into our conversation so as to make better sense of our local
situation. We must inquire how global economic, cultural and political forces impact the
rapidly changing demographics in Tennessee in order to understand how they affect each
and everyone one of you. This methodology has served me well in understanding my
own experience as an Afro-Panamanian.
For example, many of you know that President Theodore Roosevelt boasted “I took the
Canal…” but few of you may have asked what were the economic, political and strategic
factors that led to the president’s decision. Few might have asked what lay behind the
U.S. strategy to recruit over 50,000 West Indians over a ten year period (1904-1914) to
build the Panama Canal rather than hire unskilled labor in other markets, such as the U.S.
South, Spain, and China and so on. It is also important to inquire as to it impact that this
massive emigration had on the sending countries in the West Indies and on Panama’s
demographic profile, or how these cultural encounters affected race relations on the
Isthmus. These are important questions in there own right, but to fully answer them it was
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5. necessary for me to see how they related to the U.S. economic and strategic plans for
constructing the Canal. I had to ask why was it necessary for the U.S. to subordinate
Panama economically, politically and culturally, while institutionalizing a Jim Crow set
of social relations in that 500sq.miles of territory that divided the nation, known
historically as the Panama Canal Zone.
Once these larger questions were posed, it was easier, although not less painful, to
understand the dynamics of immigration, discrimination and exclusion faced by the more
than 50,000 West Indians that traveled to Panama between 1904-1914 to “dig” the
Panama Canal; to comprehend the how and why they were trapped in low paying jobs in
the Canal Zone and super-exploited as immigrant workers; and as non-citizens of either
Panama or the United States, excluded from meaningful participation in the decisionmaking process in the Canal Zone as well as in Panama. Finally, their racial and national
exclusion intersected with racial discrimination in Panama and old-fashioned segregation
in the Canal Zone, making them victims of two different racial systems; one based on the
good old one- drop- rule imported from the United States and an equally perfidious
Panamanian/Latin American racial paradigm based on so-called race mixture, what my
colleague Alberto Barrow calls Crisol de Raza.
In conclusion in order for us/you to obtain a fuller understanding of the issues affecting
African American-Latino communities in the United States and particularly in Tennessee,
it is necessary to ask similar questions, large ones and smaller ones, and seek to
understand their interrelationship. We must also deploy an interdisciplinary perspective
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