Today was a great day. I went to give a presentation at Prof. Carol Boyce Davies's class about the diaspora in Brazil. The name of my presentation was "The Colors of Brasil" and I focused on the situation of Afro-brazilians today. I got to meet her students and they had a lot of questions to ask about Brazil, some of which I could not answer, for example, when they asked about the number of Afro-Brazilians who were actually active in the Black Movement. I said it was probably a relatively small number. I did not know the answer whey they asked why. They were also impressed at our income distribution.
I took some pictures and what impressed me the most was the colors of these pictures. They go with the name of the presentation - "The Colors of Brazil".
Prof. Davies is from Trinidad. She has been to Brazil and speaks Portuguese. Here is a link to her biography.
http://asrc.cornell.edu/boyce.html
I also met Reagan (not sure how to spell her name). Her research is on Brazil and she has also been to Brazil and speaks Portuguese, too.
This is Wangyuan. She is also a visiting scholar here at Cornell and her research is on African Literature. She is from China.
This is a picture of Prof. Davies's class.
