Transnational anthropologist, Dr. J. Lorand Matory, will deliver this year's Dr. Bertha Maxwell Roddey Distinguished Africana Lecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The lecture, "Global Migrations and the Crisis of Identity in Black America", will take place on October 15, 5:00-6:30pm, in the Rowe Arts building, on the university main campus. Award ceremony and reception will immediately follow the lecture.
Dr. Matory is Director of the Center for African and African American Research, and the Lawrence Richardson Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. He has conducted anthropological research in Brazil, Nigeria, Benin Republic, Trinidad, Jamaica and the US. His book Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé won the Herskovits Prize for the best book of 2005 from the African Studies Association. He also received the Distinguished Africanist Award from the American Anthropological Association in 2010. In 2008, Professor Matory delivered the prestigious Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures at the University of Rochester. The lectures will be published by the University of Chicago Press under the title Of the Race but above the Race: Stigma, Class and Ethnic Identity in Black America.
The Africana Studies Department at UNC Charlotte inaugurated the "Maxwell-Roddey Lecture" in 2008 as an annual intellectual and social forum on pertinent issues facing Africa-descended populations globally and regionally. The annual lecture honors Dr. Maxwell-Roddey's pioneering contributions to the development of Africana Studies as an academic discipline and to the building of Black cultural institutions in Greater Charlotte and nationally.
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