Haiti & the Dominican Republic: An Island Divided (Full Episode/Black in Latin Am.)

[joeysterr]

"In the Dominican Republic, Professor Gates explores how race has been socially constructed in a society whose people reflect centuries of inter-marriage, and how the country’s troubled history with Haiti informs notions about racial classification. In Haiti, Professor Gates tells the story of the birth of the first-ever black republic, and finds out how the slaves’s hard fight for liberation over Napoleon Bonaparte’s French Empire became a double-edged sword."

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/black-in-lat...l-episode/165/

[naptime]

sweet. and it's on tommorrow too! i just set it to record!

thanks.


and next tuesday is the other one.

Cuba: The Next Revolution

A tour of Cuba explores its culture, religion, politics and music and how they are linked to slave labor imported to work in the sugar industry during the 19th century. Also: race and racism since the 1959 revolution led by Fidel Castro.

and the following two weeks.

Brazil: A Racial Paradise? In Brazil, Professor Gates delves behind the façade of Carnival to discover how this ‘rainbow nation’ is waking up to its legacy as the world’s largest slave economy.

Mexico & Peru: A Hidden Race In Mexico and Peru Professor Gates explores the almost unknown history of the significant numbers of black people—the two countries together received far more slaves than did the United States —brought to these countries as early as the 16th and 17th centuries, and the worlds of culture that their descendants have created in Vera Cruz on the Gulf of Mexico, the Costa Chica region on the Pacific, and in and around Lima, Peru.

[DMV]

Thank you Sterr!!!

[knotty]

i love stuff like this, good looking. i just gotta remember when shit comes on so i won't forget. lucky i got a DVR.

[Hunter]

It always fascintates me with languages on the islands, south america etc...

You really get a sense of history...

Muthfuckin Spanish just tore everything up...fuckers ...making us learn Spanish.

Thats why Spanish is everywhere but Jamaica, Belize...English colonies...

And the French colonies etc...

Jack Sparrow and the pirates

[Señor JDR of Medellin]

Thats why Spanish is everywhere but Jamaica, Belize...English colonies...

Less hookers in the English speaking places going for much more money.

[knotty]

It always fascintates me with languages on the islands, south america etc...

You really get a sense of history...

Muthfuckin Spanish just tore everything up...fuckers ...making us learn Spanish.

Thats why Spanish is everywhere but Jamaica, Belize...English colonies...

And the French colonies etc...

Jack Sparrow and the pirates

uhh...you forgot the Portuguese in that list.

[Hunter]

uhh...you forgot the Portuguese in that list.

This hot stripper up in Massacushettes starts rapping with me....

She says shes from Cape Verde...fluent in Portugeses....Off the coast of Africa...

Cape Verde - colonized by the Portugese....

Damn she was hot....great dance with extras

[knotty]

This hot stripper up in Massacushettes starts rapping with me....

She says shes from Cape Verde...fluent in Portugeses....Off the coast of Africa...

Cape Verde - colonized by the Portugese....

Damn she was hot....great dance with extras

tons of Cape Verdeans in Mass. I remember when I was in college and my boy from Boston would mention them to me, and i had no clue where they were from. Then as I noticed it was a island nation off the West Coast of Africa which i had no clue there was one. Beautiful place too, with some hot lookers.

[Jimbo44]

I saw the commercial last night as I was watching the Knick game. I still can not believe the Celtics won that game!!!! What channel is it on again??

[Jimbo44]

never mind, i see it is on PBS, which is 13 here on LI for Cablevision.

[weyland]

I would be very grateful if someone could record the Haitian program for me on DVD (to keep or to borrow) and bring it to the DR their next trip.

[Dick Dawson]

It always fascintates me with languages on the islands, south america etc...

You really get a sense of history...

Muthfuckin Spanish just tore everything up...fuckers ...making us learn Spanish.

Thats why Spanish is everywhere but Jamaica, Belize...English colonies...

And the French colonies etc...

Jack Sparrow and the pirates

You wouldn't think it but Jamaica at one point was a Spanish colony.

[givengo440]

FYI New York city is holding the ¡Si Cuba! festival

From March to June, fourteen New York institutions convene to celebrate the rich artistic vitality of Cuba, presenting ¡Si Cuba!, a festival showcasing the diversity of Cuban culture from the traditional to the modern. Screenings of award-winning films; lively concerts of son, rumba, hip-hop, and more by musical legends and rising stars; intimate discussions with Cuban writers, musicians, and thinkers; dance performances, from the classical to contemporary; compelling visual art exhibitions; and more showcasing the creative spirit of Cuba in forms both old and new.

go to http://sicuba.org/en for information. I am going to check it out this weekend.

[TC]

It always fascintates me with languages on the islands, south america etc...

You really get a sense of history...

Muthfuckin Spanish just tore everything up...fuckers ...making us learn Spanish.

Thats why Spanish is everywhere but Jamaica, Belize...English colonies...

And the French colonies etc...

Jack Sparrow and the pirates

Don't forget Brazil, which is Portuguese. Hundreds of years ago, a pope gave Brazil to Portugal, and most of the rest of South America to Spain.

And of course, the USA, which was discovered by an Italian explorer, sailing for Spain, and became a British colony. Go figure.

[Señor JDR of Medellin]

Don't forget Brazil, which is Portuguese. Hundreds of years ago, a pope gave Brazil to Portugal, and most of the rest of South America to Spain.

And of course, the USA, which was discovered by an Italian explorer, sailing for Spain, and became a British colony. Go figure.

Well they tried to take Santo Domingo and lost so they didn't want to go home empty handed so they took Jamaica and from there, they took North America.

[TC]

Well they tried to take Santo Domingo and lost so they didn't want to go home empty handed so they took Jamaica and from there, they took North America.

Was this the same year that Weyland got off the ship?

[Jimmydr]

Was this the same year that Weyland got off the ship?

he came later.

[knotty]

bringing this up, reminds me of this documentary that still has not come out yet because of funding. i hope it makes the light of day because this looks good.


and site
http://www.afrolatinos.tv/index.php

[joeysterr]

bringing this up, reminds me of this documentary that still has not come out yet because of funding. i hope it makes the light of day because this looks good.
YouTube - Afrolatinos Documentary 2011 Promotional video

and site
http://www.afrolatinos.tv/index.php

Damn me too Africans in Latin America. A true untold story!