Film Series: Black In Latin America
henry louis gates
A riveting and educational documentary
Latin America is often associated with music, monuments and sun, but each of the six countries featured in Black in Latin America including the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru, has a secret history.
On his journey, Professor Gates discovers, behind a shared legacy of colonialism and slavery, vivid stories and people marked by African roots. Latin America and the Caribbean have the largest concentration of people with African ancestry outside Africa — up to 70 percent of the population in some countries.
The region imported over ten times as many slaves as the United States, and kept them in bondage far longer.
WHEN
Wednesday, october 13
Wednesday. October 20
Wednesday, October 27
Wednesday, November 3
6:30PM - 8:30PM
light snacks will be provided
FREE to the public
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, as well as director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.
