The University of Pittsburgh is partnering with five universities dedicated to Afro-Latin American Studies to expand the field and recruit scholars. With a nearly $2 million grant from the Ford Foundation, the Latin American universities will examine the contributions of African descendants to Latin American history and culture. They also plan to produce materials and trainings for K-12 educators.
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When i was a child and the communist authorities would send a volunteer worker to inquire why I had not yet joined the Pioneros or generally was not going along with the rhetoric of the Cuban Revolution, my grandmother would react in a way I found puzzling. She would show the visitor, usually a woman, to the sitting room my family used for people with whom we were not intimate, and then serve coffee in the good china (not the chipped and weathered cups used with family and friends). Then she invariably would launch into a version of the same routine.
The recent killing of a Black teenager by the police in Cuba, and the disturbing details caught on video, have drawn rare attention to police brutality and racial discrimination on the island.