II International Colloquium on Afro-American Studies begins Tuesday at Casa de las Americas in Cuba.   Photo: Prensa Latina

Havana, June 14 (RHC)-- The II International Colloquium on Afro-American Studies will begin this Tuesday at Casa de las Americas with an agenda on subjugation, racism, history and memory, associated to the continent's imprint during five centuries.

The program includes a keynote lecture by Dr. Maria del Carmen Barcia, winner of the National Prize for Social and Humanistic Sciences and History Award, and a panel on slavery in the Caribbean, its practices, aftermath and insurgencies.

The meeting will analyze that social phenomenon during the period of legal commercialization of the sale of people in the Captaincy General of Cuba, the intra-Caribbean traffic, the processes that took place in times of abolition and the uprisings against the strategies of domination.

From the capital's cultural institution, experts will discuss the visions of that scourge in the illustrated press of Havana, by Dr. Cynthia Garcia, from the Mexican Association of Caribbean Studies in Mexico, and the trade between Puerto Rico and the largest of the Antilles.

Another of the topics proposed during the opening day is the political economy of racism in colonial Venezuela, the original accumulation of Los Grandes Cacaos, taken on by Dr. Lilia Marquez, of the Cátedra Libre África-CEPEC of the Bolivarian University of Venezuela.

The event continues with a panel on the nuances of history teaching in Brazil, consisting of a brief sample of the teaching work of Dr. Pedro Alexander Cubas and a study on the biographical and artistic trajectory of the sambista Clementina de Jesus, published by the academic Amanda Moraes.

The event, scheduled until June 17, concludes this Tuesday's initiatives with a research on untold stories, myths of origin and other audiovisual approaches, shared by Tharles Figueiredo de Araujo, from the Federal University of Rondonópolis.