Negotiating Spaces: Black Identity, Culture and Politics in South America

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George Reid Andrews, Ph.D.
Dr. Andrews is UCIS Research Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh , where he also teaches on Latin American history. He is the author, most recently, of Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000: Black History in Spanish America and Brazil (2004, Oxford University Press) , as well as many books and articles on the history of slavery, black labor in Latin America, and the social construction of democracy. Other works to his credit include: The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires , 1800-1900 and Blacks and Whites in Sao Paulo , Brazil , 1888-1988

Juan Ricardo Aparicio
Juan Ricardo Aparicio is a Ph. D. student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . His research is focused on the articulation of violence, representation, and internal displacement in Colombia . He has a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of los Andes in Bogotá as well as a graduate degree in Cultural Studies from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. He has done fieldwork in the capital Bogotá, one of the important destinations of Internally Displaced population. His current interests are how communities develop response mechanisms before, during, and after displacement, as well as an interest in public policy.

John French, Ph.D.
Dr. French is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of History at Duke University . An historian of modern Latin America with a specialization in Brazil , French is the author of Drowning in Laws but Starving: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture ( University of North Carolina Press , July, 2004). Since 1984, French has served as co-coordinator of the Latin American Labor History Conference held in April of each year at Duke. In 2001, he was appointed director of the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Judi Morrison
Judith Morrison joined the Inter-American Dialogue as executive director of the Inter-Agency Consultation on Race in Latin America (IAC) in October 2004. Previously, she served as division chief for the South America , Southern Cone and Caribbean region, and director of the Brazil program at the Inter-American Foundation. Morrison created the first Brazilian private sector eco-development fund, and negotiated over ten million dollars in agreements with U.S. and Latin American corporations. She is former director of a nonprofit management organization, and has expertise designing development initiatives for marginalized communities. Morrison is the contributing editor of Economic Development in Latin American Communities of African Descent (IAF:2002), and contributing author to Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience . She has spoken and published widely in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, and taught at the Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia ) and Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Morrison earned a master's degree in income distribution and poverty alleviation from MIT, as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Carroll Wilson Awardee. She is a member of the Association of Black Foundation Executives and serves on the board of directors of the Public Policy and International Affairs Program .

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