{"id":56660,"date":"2019-03-11T08:48:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T12:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=56660"},"modified":"2019-03-11T09:19:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T13:19:21","slug":"speaker-to-explore-new-grounds-on-race-debate-in-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/03\/speaker-to-explore-new-grounds-on-race-debate-in-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker to explore new grounds on race debate in Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guest speaker Porfirio Samuel Fur\u00e9 Davis will explore the race debate in Cuba during a presentation hosted by Brock\u2019s Faculty of Education on Tuesday, March 12.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Race and racism have been controversial topics in Cuba in the post-revolutionary period. Fur\u00e9\u2019s talk will explore new grounds for the race debate in Cuba and provide insight into a complex discussion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A distinguished scholar and Professor Titular in the School of Foreign Languages at the University of Havana, Fur\u00e9 is known for his work on Afro-Caribbean oral tradition, Cuban reggae and Anglo-Caribbean literature, and is also the author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La Cultura Rastafari en Cuba, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">his seminal history of the Rastafarian movement in Cuba. He also serves as a host and a scholarly mentor to visiting international scholars who go to Cuba to study the issue of Black culture in Cuba.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The talk was organized by Michael O\u2019Sullivan, Associate Professor and Associate Dean Graduate Student Services, Research and International in the Faculty of Education. Fur\u00e9 has been connected with Brock since 2008 and has collaborated with O\u2019Sullivan on a research project in the past.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His talk takes place from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in WH 206. All are welcome to attend.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest speaker Porfirio Samuel Fur\u00e9 Davis will explore the race debate in Cuba during a presentation hosted by Brock\u2019s Faculty of Education on Tuesday, March 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,40],"tags":[7656,32,7657],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56667,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56660\/revisions\/56667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}