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Critical Ethnic Studies Informational Gathering

Critical Ethnic Studies (CES) Collective Informational Gathering Center for the Study of the American South (CSAS) MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2019 4:30-6:30 Food and Drink And of course, wonderful colleagues!

Free

Ana Castillo

Pleasants Room, Wilson Library 200 South Road, Chapel Hill NC, NC, United States

Distinguished author Ana Castillo will read from her poetry and prose collections tracing her writing as acts of resistance. Castillo penned the novels So Far From God and Sapogonia, both New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Her novel … Read more

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Racial Literacies: A Carolina Seminar

Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall 203 Lenoir Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The Critical Ethnic Studies Collective is a new initiative to convene faculty engaged in research that focuses on intersectional thought and social justice in diverse communities. This research has been transformative for both institutions and individuals in the global community. … Read more

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Queer Indigeneity and Anti-Authoritarianism in Brazil

FedEx Global Education Center 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill NC, United States

How do queer natives in Brazil face the challenges of settler-colonial policies implemented by Jair Bolsonaro’s administration? That is, how do queer natives respond to the government’s racism and homophobia, and the threats to the environment? The answer to these … Read more

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Tiffany Lethabo King

Bullshead Bookshop Lounge, UNC Student Stores 207 South Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The Sonja Haynes Stone Center Writer's Discussion Series presents Tiffany Lethabo King, Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University, author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies. In The Black Shoals, … Read more

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Mab Segrest in conversation with Sharon P. Holland

Join Mab Segrest and Sharon P. Holland as they discuss Dr. Segrest's new book, Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum (The New Press; 2020). Registration with an email address is required to … Read more