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THE BEST OF AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL
TONIGHT: Garifuna in Peril @ 6:30pm Cowin- Teacher’s College shown with Negro: Media Imagery and Thoughts on Sammy Sosa
TOMORROW: La Playa DC @ 8:30 Chapel – Teachers College shown with Negro- FInding Identity: The Criados with Q &A
Source nyadiff.org
Negro: Finding Identity- Melissa
Melissa talks about growing up as a Colombian-American ‘child of immigrants’ who refused to assimilate. She now lives in Cali, Colombia after being raised in New York. Some of her family accused her of ‘acting white’ or ‘better than.’
When people hear her father is from Cali they say “Oh so you can dance!” (Cali is known as the salsa capital of the world) when they hear her mother is from Buenaventura they say “OH! You can REALLY dance AND you can cook! because Black women know how to cook really well or something.” Buenaventura is on the coast and majority African-descended.
Befittingly, I met Melissa at Tin Tin Deo, a salsa venue in Cali, Colombia and we connected via another traveler who introduced us New Yorkers. Melissa and her friend Carolina are both ex-New Yorkers and warmly welcomed me.
Source youtube.com
Negro: How Afro-Americans Found Out About AfroLatinos
THIS VIDEO IS ONLY AVAILABLE FOR RENTAL
Three Afro-Americans tell their stories of discovering the vastness of the African Diaspora. One Afro-Colombian talks about wrong assumptions made by Afro-Americans and the realization that the United States received the least amount of enslaved Africans in the slave trade, 5% versus the rest of the Americas (Latin America and the Caribbean) at 95%.
Source youtube.com
