Todd Ramón Ochoa has a new book out called A Party for Lazarus: Six Generations of Ancestral Devotion in a Cuban Town (University of California Press). A Party for Lazarus is the story of a Cuban family, six generations removed … Read more

Critical Ethnic Studies Collective board members Kia Caldwell (with Emily Susanna Chávez, editors) and Tanya L. Shields (with Kathy Perkins, “Telling Stories of Home: Pedagogy, Practice and the Potential for Lasting Change”) contributed to the new volume Engaging the African … Read more

What would Henry Berry Lowrie do in the time of the Coronavirus pandemic? Frank Stasio talks to Malinda Maynor Lowery on WUNC’s The State of Things.

Malinda Maynor Lowery ponders kinship, place, and knowledge in terms of her relationship to Lumbeeland.

CES Convener Sharon P. Holland talks about Critical Ethnic Studies  Critical Ethnic Studies Graduate Working Group Fellows with Convener Sharon P. Holland at Home in the Center for the Study of the American South   “I really wish we had … Read more

Emil Keme has been awarded the prestigious Casa de Las Americas prize for Studies on American indigenous cultures for his book Le Maya Q’atzij (Our Maya Word): Poetics of Resistance and Emancipation from Iximulew (1960-2012). The book offers a critical … Read more