Events
African American Studies
“A New Jim Code: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life” ★
UCI School of Law, EDU 1111The Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy and the UCI Department of Informatics present "A New Jim Code: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life" Ruha Benjamin Associate Professor of African American Studies Princeton University Friday, February 7, 2020 2:00 - 3:00 pm UCI School of Law, EDU…
1520 and the Slave Trade to the Americas ♥
Topic 1520 and the Slave Trade to the Americas Description Perhaps one of the most surprising aspects of the 1619 commemorations is that few people realize that the earliest known slaving voyages to sail directly from Africa to the Americas actually landed in the United States 500 years ago. The ship Santa María de la…
A Study in Blackness and Black Identity ♥ ★
Zoom"A Study in Blackness and Black Identity" Cherise Smith, Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, UT Austinty Thursday, February 4, 2021 - 3:15pm to 4:30pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvsrtkrvgUQ&feature=youtu.be Scholar Cherise Smith discusses the art of Michael Ray Charles, an artist who rose to prominence in the 1990s for works that engaged American stereotypes of Black Americans. Based on her research and…
Ọkụ Extenders: Women, Sacrality, and Transformative Art ♥
ZoomỌkụ Extenders: Women, Sacrality, and Transformative Art March 18, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. Join via Zoom: https://scrippscollege.zoom.us/j/95717417598 Nkiru Nzegwu is SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Africana Studies and in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at State University of New York at Binghamton. She is also Professor Extraordinarius in the School of Transdisciplinary Research…