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Thursday, May 23, 2013
African descendants in Mexico: Invisibility and the process of legal recognitionDr. Sagrario Cruz Carretero
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
CAS Gallery (Stanford Drive)
Since 2003 Dr. Cruz Carretero has worked as a full time professor and researcher in the Department of Anthropology at the Universidad Veracruzanateaching "Ethnic studies" and "Traditional Medicine in Mexico." She has given lectures in many parts of Mexico and other countries such as Spain, Cuba and the United States (UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, Stanford University, Columbia University, Brown University, Winston Salem State University, Chapel Hill University, Georgia State University, Texas A&M at Bryan and Corpus Christi Tx, Harvard among many other university and cultural institutions). She was a fellow of the United Negro College Fund during 2003 and 2005 giving courses at Winston Salem State University and at Southern University-Baton Rouge LA.
Dr. Cruz-Carretero was co-curator of the landmark exhibition "The Black presence in Mexico From Yanga to the present" with the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum of Chicago. The exhibition was the first of its kind in the US, opening in 2006 in Chicago and continuing until 2011 in eleven places throughout the US and Mexico.
In 2006-2007 she got the Fulbright scholarship to teach at UNM in the Spanish Department and in the African American Studies Department. In 2008 she got for the second time the "Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán Medal" for her research about the African descendants in Mexico.
Graciously sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, Modern Languages and Literatures, and Africana Studies
CAS Gallery (Stanford Drive)
Since 2003 Dr. Cruz Carretero has worked as a full time professor and researcher in the Department of Anthropology at the Universidad Veracruzanateaching "Ethnic studies" and "Traditional Medicine in Mexico." She has given lectures in many parts of Mexico and other countries such as Spain, Cuba and the United States (UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, Stanford University, Columbia University, Brown University, Winston Salem State University, Chapel Hill University, Georgia State University, Texas A&M at Bryan and Corpus Christi Tx, Harvard among many other university and cultural institutions). She was a fellow of the United Negro College Fund during 2003 and 2005 giving courses at Winston Salem State University and at Southern University-Baton Rouge LA.
Dr. Cruz-Carretero was co-curator of the landmark exhibition "The Black presence in Mexico From Yanga to the present" with the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum of Chicago. The exhibition was the first of its kind in the US, opening in 2006 in Chicago and continuing until 2011 in eleven places throughout the US and Mexico.
In 2006-2007 she got the Fulbright scholarship to teach at UNM in the Spanish Department and in the African American Studies Department. In 2008 she got for the second time the "Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán Medal" for her research about the African descendants in Mexico.
Graciously sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, Modern Languages and Literatures, and Africana Studies
