Afro-Mexican Memory in its Cultural Diaspora

Ortega Park Steering Committee aka #OccupyOrtegaPark is pleased to host the Afro-Chicanx Digital Humanities Project: Memories, Narratives, and Oppositional Consciousness of Black Diasporas as a free community workshop of cultural exploration.  Presented with  JohnJairo of UCSB Las Maestras Center,  Prof. Dora Careaga-Coleman invites the community to discover ” Flavors of the African Diaspora especially the African origins of Mexican Foods.” This will be an interactive dialogue about the importance of AfroMexican foodways as a form of cultural retention with sensorial engagement with food, through touch,  taste, and storytelling.

The workshop will include “AfroChicanx Photo Albums” exploring photography as a resource to reconstruct family identity and community genealogy. BRING your family photos to share stories and learn about tools on how to digitize them.

More information about the AfroChicanx Digital Humanities Project at UCSB  can be found at https://www.lasmaestrascenter.ucsb.edu/current-events/afrochicanx-photo-albums-project

About  the research  at  https://www.instagram.com/afrochicanxproject/

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