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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: Coloniality and the Semiotics of Racialization in Latin America: The Peruvian Case Thursday, March 10, 2016 Negotiations of an individual’s racial positioning, consisting of evaluations of co-occurring emblems such as occupation and descent, for example, in addition to skin color, have been a mainstay feature of colonial and post-colonial societies. Such negotiations, through events of performance and decoding of sign-markers, serve to (re)produce racial categories and to solidify the valence of emblematic racial types over time, even when the perceivable emblems themselves have changed. Tracking shifts and continuities in Peruvian racial ideologies from the colonial period to the present, this survey will move chronologically through a series of case studies, considering their impact on identity formation across Peruvian history, grounding them in contemporary examples. Time: 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Sponsor: Anthropology Program; LAIS Program; Office of Alumni/ae Affairs Contact: Laura Kunreuther. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-7667 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://anthropology.bard.edu/events/