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L4tP2020!(NOTE: This recording is only meant to be accessed by convention registrants and NLG members. Please do not circulate publicly.)
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What lessons are there in comparative social constructs, movements for Black liberation, and state and organizational responses to individual and systemic racism and anti-Blackness? This workshop will engage experts on Cuba and the U.S. on:
- The social construction of race and the applicability/limitations of critical legal and race theory outside of the U.S.
- Movements for Black lives and the comparative trajectories of fights against anti-Blackness in Cuba and the U.S.
- Dismantling structural racism and anti-Blackness through institutional, political and social interventions
Sponsors: NLG International Committee, Cuba Subcommittee, TUPOCC
Speakers:
Dr. Tamara Lee, Rutgers Univ. & NLG L&E Committee
Yanet Pumariega Pérez, Third Secretary, Cuban Embassy in Washington D.C.
August H. Nimtz, Jr, Professor at University of Minnesota
Esteban "Tatico" Jimenez Guerra, Afro-Cuban artist (between Harlem and Cuba)
Dr. Gail Walker, Director, IFCO Pastors for Peace (Moderator)
