African American studies

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10/17/2022
  

  Revisiting Saidiya Hartman on the Meaning of Freedom

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  A quarter century after publication, "Scenes of Subjection" still shows how Americans have embraced emancipation as a national expurgation of the sin of slavery, without stopping to consider the substantive meaning of freedom. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  9/7/2021
  

  Toni Morrison's Vision of Justice Was an Ethos of Care

  by Farah Jasmine Griffin

  "What does justice look like for centuries of systemic abuse and violence enacted by a society built upon withholding justice from Black people? In all of her novels Toni Morrison contemplates the nature and practice of justice."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/8/2021
  

  Cornel West Is Leaving Harvard After Tenure Dispute

  Dr. West’s dispute over tenure put a new focus on complaints that Black and Latino professors are underrepresented in the ranks of tenured professors, not just at Harvard. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  

  What Does African American Studies Need to Thrive?

  A recent eruption of dissention in UCLA's African American Studies department arguably reflects the strains caused by poor institutional support by the university, an issue faced by Black Studies departments on many campuses.

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• SOURCE: Paris Review
  10/5/2020
  

  Memory Haunts: John Edgar Wideman's Fictionalized Account of the 1985 MOVE Bombing

  by Imani Perry

  Wideman's account of events leading to the bombing of MOVE by Philadelphia police "is not just a map of the city but of the nation and our collective condition."

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  11/22/2019
  

  The Black Shoals: A New Book Theorizing Formations of Black and Native Studies

  by J. T. Roane

   An interview with  Tiffany Lethabo King, author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Duke University Press, 2019).

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• SOURCE: NPR Codeswitch
  3/21/19
  

  The Student Strike That Changed Higher Ed Forever

  50 years ago, studying the history and culture of any people who were not white and Western was considered radical.

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• SOURCE: ctpost
  3-25-18
  

  Text chosen for Connecticut school’s African American History course stirs controversy

  But what may be more interesting is that only 2 school districts in the country require all students starting to take a half-year course in African-American Studies, Caribbean/Latin-American Studies or Perspectives on Race to graduate.

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• SOURCE: Missoulian
  10-5-17
  

  Montana professor finds racially-charged flyer on African-American studies program board

  A flier for his course – “White Supremacy History/Defeat” – was changed to read: “Black Nationalism History/Defeat.”

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• SOURCE: Yale Daily News
  1-25-16
  

  Yale professor redesigns syllabus after campus protests

  African American Studies professor Matthew Jacobson says the chants of the students offered a perfect structure for his class on “Politics and Culture of the American ‘Color Line.’ "

• SOURCE: Evanston Patch
  1-10-13
  

  Prolific author, Northwestern professor Jan Carew dies at 92

  Northwestern University issued the following obituary of former professor Jan Carew, who died Dec. 6:Jan Carew, professor emeritus of African American studies at Northwestern University, died Dec. 6 in Louisville, Kentucky. He was 92.Professor of African American Studies from 1973 to 1987, Carew was described as the “quintessential Renaissance Man – an author, historian, internationalist, public intellectual, social justice activist and pioneer in experimenting with sustainable lifestyles for people of color.”Darlene Clark Hine, Board of Trustees Professor of African American studies and professor of history at Northwestern, said Carew was an important leader of Black studies....