From paul@afrocubaweb.com Mon Jan 18 09:34:41 1999 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id JAA17874 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 09:34:40 -0800 Received: from mail.AFROCUBAWEB.COM ([216.25.6.1]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.2+UW99.01/8.9.2+UW99.01) with SMTP id JAA04551; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 09:34:35 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199901181734.JAA04551@mxu1.u.washington.edu> Received: from soma [24.128.121.54] by mail.AFROCUBAWEB.COM (SMTPD32-4.07) id A97E450108; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 08:39:10 EDT From: "AfroCubaWeb" To: "AfroCubaWeb" Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 08:38:32 -0500 X-Distribution: Bulk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: Quoted-printable Subject: AfroCubaWeb Newsletter - 1/17/99 5089 Reply-to: paul@afrocubaweb.com TransAfrica, an influential African American policy group, visits Cuba 1/99. Asked on his return plans, president Randall Robinson replied: "We will appear on a range of television and radio programs to recommend and to urge that the embargo be lifted as soon as possible." See http://afrocubaweb.com/TransAfrica.htm Pedro Perez Sarduy to tour US in April,. He is a journalist, poet, and co-editor of AfroCuba: An Anthology, which is coming out in a Spanish edition. See http://afrocubaweb.com/pedrops.htm. Pedro was recently at the II International Symposium on Afro- Iberoamerican Studies, in the Ivory Coast, along with a Cuban delegation that included Rogelio Martines Fure. Fure recently made declarations on race & identity that were carried in the Cuban media: http://afrocubaweb.com/Fure.htm Thomas Fernandez Robaina of the Biblioteca Nacional is visiting the US; he is the author of El Negro en Cuba 1902 -1958, (The Blacks in Cuba 1902-1958: Notes on the history of the struggle against racial discimination). Robaina is an authority on 1912 and on AfroCuban culture with a prodigious bibliography we have posted on his page: http://afrocubaweb.com/tomasfr.htm. He is available for lectures & seminars through the end of February and beyond. Gloria Rolando is back in Cuba after a succesfull US tour. She is proceeding with the filming of Searching in My Dreams, which deals with the 1912 massacre of the Independents of Color, the hemisphere's first black political party. http://afrocubaweb.com/SearchingInMyDreams.htm. Filming will be completed by March, after which she will be looking for resources to edit the film. The Matanzas Percussion and Dance US workshop tour has been rescheduled for Sep/Oct =9299 in order to manage the performance component many were asking for. Check out the updated line-up which now includes the remarkable singer Dolores Perez of Afrocuba de Matanzas as well as Chacha, Pello, Sandy, Juan Garcia and many others. http://afrocubaweb.com/MtzsPerc.htm Pablo Herrera: hip-hop & rap producer/DJ/keyboardist/poet, back in Cuba from US visit: http://afrocubaweb.com/PabloHerrera.htm Percussionist Amelia Pedroso holds workshop in Manchester, England - 3/99: http://afrocubaweb.com/amelia.htm 1999 Workshops in Santiago: ethnography, oral history: Centro Cultural Africano Fernando Ortiz, Catedra de Estudios Afrocaribenos Romulo Lachatanere: http://afrocubaweb.com/CentroOrtiz.htm Check out our new Discussion Group: http://afrocubaweb.com/groups.htm New sections: AfroCuban History Time Line and Race & Identity in Cuba. Works in progress... additions welcome. We have heard that the Cubans are establishing a "catedra" (chair) of AfroCuban or African studies at the national level. Anyone with any information on this, please share with us at paul@afrocubaweb.com, especially contact points. To subscribe, visit our subscription page: http://www.afrocubaweb.com/mail.htm .