Category: Race & Ethnicity
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Navigating my way through Public Scholarship
I am sure I am not the only one here who started her PhD program thinking about all the impact this intellectual pursuit will have in solving some of the word’s most impressing issues. Sounds idealistic? I agree! Prior to pursuing my PhD in Islamic Civilizations Studies, I was working with an NGO that that […]
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Torn Apart/Separados Hackathon & HASTAC Meet-up Recap
Map of allies Post by Alex Gil and Roopika Risam Torn Apart / Separados, which launched on July 25th, is a set of rapid response data visualizations created by a small team of researchers using data they collected on immigrant detention over a 7-day period. The team behind the project is Manan Ahmed, Maira Alvarez, Sylvia Fernandez, […]
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“Louis Armstrong and the Cold War: The Real Ambassador” by Damele Elliott Collier
NOTE: I am posting this on behalf of Damele Elliott Collier per her email request. All content of this post beyond this disclaimer is the intellectual property of Damele Elliott Collier and thus, not my own. ———————————————————————————— ABSTRACT Using the platform of Prezi, I have compiled a series of videos that portray the time that Louis “Satchmo” […]
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Black List: New York
Please find below the link to a Google Maps-hosted map, entitled Black List: New York. Black List: New York is an attempt to make present the past Cold War-era FBI surveillance of three black radical women: Claudia Jones, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Alice Childress. Alongside this map I have included a B-side essay of sorts that […]
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Lunch with Nexus (3/22): Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage, Arte Público, and US Latina/o Digital Humanities
The Nexus Digital Research Co-op invites you to join us for a brown bag lunch with Drs. Carolina A. Villarroel and Gabriela Baeza Ventura from the University of Houston. For those not able to make the presentation and conversation in-person, this event will be livetweeted on the #usLdh hashtag. Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage, Arte Público, and US Latina/o […]
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The Lemon Project Symposium, March 16-17, 2018
I love conferences. In fact, conferences are probably my favorite part of being an academic. However, it’s not just going to conferences that I like– it’s being a part of the university hosting them. I love welcoming people to my university who are here for intellectual conversations. It’s about the ideas that fly in a […]
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“Blacklisted” Recap March 6, 2018 Sojourning while Young, Gifted, Black and Immigrant: Claudia Jones and left Black feminism in the 1950s
Recap 3/6/18 Theme: “The Sojourners: Women, Activism, Communism, Immigration, Deportation” Last Tuesday on March 6, 2018—just two days before International Woman’s Day— “BlackListed” discussed the role of the Black feminist tradition as it relates to the work and life of Black woman Communist and theorist, Claudia Jones. I knew that when I recommended, in what […]
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In Search of Justice
Check out Kenneth Chamberlains’s story about police brutality here: Peace.
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Symposium! “Archives Against Amnesia: Archives, Evidence, and Social Justice” (March 1-3, 2018)
Starting tomorrow (3/1) and running until March 3rd, 2018. the University of Iowa will hold a symposium on “Archives Against Amnesia: Archives, Evidence, and Social Justice.” On the event website, the organizers describe the event as below: “We often picture archives as rare documents and artifacts—precious and too often unseen collections that preserve our history. […]
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Black Listing Then and Now?: Similarities and Continuities
On February 6, 2018 “Black Listed” held its second class. We began the class with what is now becoming a usual fashion: we welcomed each other, grabbed a few snacks and directed ourselves to the assigned text. For this week, students were to have read William J. Maxwell‘s “Total Literary Awareness.” As the class opened, we […]