The Second National Conference entitled "RACE, ETHNICITY AND POWER IN
MARITIME AMERICA, 2000 - Maritime Communities of the Atlantic World and the
Pacific Rim: A Multidisciplinary Discussion," will take place at Mystic
Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut, September 14 - 17, 2000.  It will engage a
wide community of scholars, teachers, students, museum professionals, and
the general public in a broad conversation about issues of race and
ethnicity in the American maritime past.  Sessions will be organized to
support a dialogue among conference participants regarding the state of
scholarship, and the challenge of confronting students and the public with
issues of race and ethnicity through institutional programing and our
schools.

Keynote speakers will be professors James O. Horton of George Washington
University and Daniel Vickers of the University of Southern California, San
Diego. Sessions topics will include African American seafarers in the
Atlantic and Pacific, the slave trade, Marcus Garvey, maritime labor,
waterborne northern migration, museums and issues of race, teaching about
race and ethnicity in the classroom, AMISTAD, multi-ethnic maritime
enclaves, Chinese diaspora, and perceptions of "the other."

The PBS documentary about Captian Michael Healy, a performance based on the
narrative of Olaudah Equiano, the re-creation schooner AMISTAD and Mystic
Seaport's public programming dealing with slavery and race will be included
in this event as well.

For information contact Beverly Griffith, Mystic Seaport, 75 Greenmanville
Ave., P.O. Box 6000, Mystic CT 06355-0990; 860-572 -0711, ext. 4061;
[log in to unmask]; or see the website http://www.mysticseaport.org.




Edward Baker
Assistant Director of Interpretation

MYSTIC SEAPORT
The Museum of America and the Sea
75 Greenmanville Avenue
Mystic, CT  06355  USA

860.572.0711 ext. 5080
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http://www.mysticseaport.org
http://www.alhfam.org

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