This paper describes a capacity building project for US public school teachers, faculty at a historically Black college and Afro Latin Americans from Argnetina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
This professional development project led educators to create Afro-Latin American curricula materials for both college and P-12 students. A portrayal of the challenges encountered when building a community of teachers who became aware of historical truths and the misrepresentations about Afro-Latin Americans is presented. The paper illustrates the interactions and dialogue between the teachers/faculty with Afro-Latin American representatives during a "Year of the African Diaspora Conference", which uncovered the partiipants' consciousness of Afro Latin Americans and self, then generated knowledge to create curricula materials.

Keywords

• curriculum develoment
• multicultural

(30 min. Conference Paper, English)