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Provost Lecture Series 2001: Global Anthropologies

Jacqueline Nassy Brown

 

From Global to Local and Back Again: Placing Black Identities in Liverpool, England

University of California, Santa Cruz

Tuesday, March 6, 2001 at 4:00pm, Room 1007, Business Administration Building. Reception to follow.

What do constructions of 'place' have to do with racial politics, communities and identities? What might postcoloniality mean in a marginalized British city like Liverpool, wiht one of the longest-settled Black populations in Europe?

Ann Anagnost

Is the Fatherland Really a Motherland?

University of Washington

Tuesday, March 27, 2001 at 4:00pm, Room 1007, Busines Administration Building. Reception to follow.

How does globalization affect the relation of motherhood to nationhood? How does China's intensification of economic globalization affect constructions of maternal agency in child rearing?

David Román

Latino Genealogies: Broadway and Beyond

University of Southern California

Tuesday, April 3, 2001 at 4:00pm, Room 1007, Business Administration Building. Reception to follow.

How do Performing Arts offer a new way of imagining Pan-Latino identity? How might we better understand the current "boom" in Latino popular culture?

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