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February 15, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mayor of Belize City to Speak About
Realities and Challenges in a Racially Mixed Society
WHO: Zenaida Victoria
Moya, Mayor of Belize City, Belize
WHAT: Lecture “In
Focus: Belize — Lessons from a Legacy of Black-Brown Crossroads
and Struggle”
WHEN: Wednesday,
Feb. 27, 1-2:30 p.m.
WHERE: California State University,
Dominguez Hills, Loker Student Union Ballroom
(Carson, CA) — On
Wednesday, Feb. 27, California State University, Dominguez Hills
(CSUDH) will
host a lecture on race relations with the mayor of Belize City,
Zenaida Victoria Moya. Co-sponsored by the Department of Africana
Studies, the Department of Chicana/o Studies, Associated Students,
Inc., the Multicultural Center and Toro Productions, the lecture
and discussion will take place beginning at 1 p.m. in the university’s
Loker Student Union.
Belize is a country the size of
Massachusetts that borders Guatemala, Mexico and the Caribbean
Sea. The population is ethnically diverse
and racially mixed, with Belizeans either descendants of indigenous
peoples, enslaved Africans, or Europeans. Immigrants from Europe
and Asia also call Belize home.
Mayor Moya’s talk will focus
on this unique blending of races and cultures and how this heterogeneous
society finds common ground
among its races.
“
Belizeans by comparison seem to be more adept at building cross-cultural
consensus and avoiding the tensions between black and brown peoples
that has become an increasing problem in the United States,” said
Professor Ron Wilkins, Africana studies, who specializes in the
cross-cultural tie between Africans and Latin Americans and helped
arrange the visit from Mayor Moya.
A Belize City native, Zenaida
Victoria Moya was university educated in the United States. She
earned a bachelor’s and master’s
degree in business administration and economics from Gonzaga University
in Spokane, Wash., and University of Detroit-Mercy, respectively.
She returned to Belize after college and took a job with the government.
Following her involvement in national strikes protesting unfair
tax increases and government corruption in 2005, Moya became mayor
in 2006.
The Loker Student Union on the campus
of CSU Dominguez Hills is located off Victoria Street near Tamcliff
Street in Carson.
Permits
to park in the campus lots are $3 and can be purchased at yellow
kiosk machines on the perimeter of each lot.
For more information,
contact (310) 243-3819.
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