Muhlenberg Sponsors Lecture On Cultural Stereotypes
Victor Vega, Ph.D., associate professor of human development and adjunct professor of African-American studies at Middlesex College in Edison, N.J., will present "Cultural Heritage: Myths and Stereotypes" at Muhlenberg College, Thursday, October 17.Friday, October 11, 2002 11:39 AM
Victor Vega, Ph.D., associate professor of human development and adjunct professor of African-American studies at Middlesex College in Edison, N.J., will present "Cultural Heritage: Myths and Stereotypes" at Muhlenberg College, Thursday, October 17. The lecture will be at 7:30 p.m. in Lithgow Science Auditorium, Trumbower Hall, and is free and open to the public.
A native of Puerto Rico and raised in New York City, Vega will discuss the socio-historical challenges, evolving intellectual conditions and cultural contributions of the African Latino diaspora. Topics to be addressed may include the significance of cultural heritage; different ways of knowing and responding to information; oral history, family elders, color and racism; myths, stereotypes and migrations of Latinos and people of African descent; African and Latino social activism and the university; and the African diaspora in Africa, Iberian Peninsula and the Americas.
Vega's lecture is sponsored by Muhlenberg's office of multicultural life and Comunidad Latina.
