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Video Title:
Taíno Symposium – Session 1 – Sherina Feliciano-Santos
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The National Museum of the American Indian and the Smithsonian Latino Center presented Taíno: A Symposium in Conversation with the Movement on September 8, 2018 to celebrate the exhibition Taíno: Native Heritage and Identity in the Caribbean. Experts representing Indigenous studies, genetic science, anthropology, linguistics, and other academic disciplines examined exhibition themes in dialogue with Taíno/Indigenous Caribbean community leaders and cultural workers. This session titled Looking Back: Contextualizing the Taíno Movement is a conversation among veteran Taíno organizers and community leaders. This segment features Sherina Feliciano-Santos, Assistant Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, University of South Carolina in Columbia. Sherina FELICIANO-SANTOS, PhD, is an assistant professor of linguistic anthropology at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Her current research includes ethnic and racial formations and language practices in the context of Indigenous reclamations in Puerto Rico; schooling, language ideologies, and Puerto Rican migration; and race relations, communication, and policing in the U.S. South. She has published her research among the Taíno in several anthropological journals. She is generally interested in and has published on the related roles of language and historical understandings in mediating expressions and interpretations of identity and senses of belonging. This symposium was webcast and recorded live in at the National Museum of the American Indian New York, George Gustav Heye Center on September 8, 2018.
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14 min 8 sec
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