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October 2019
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!
Find out more »November 2019
Ana Castillo
Chapel Hill NC, NC 27514 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 Give It to Me won a 2014 LAMBDA Literary Award. Castillo’s latest work, Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me , examines what it means to be a single, brown, feminist parent in a world of mass incarceration, racial profiling, and…
Find out more »Racial Literacies: A Carolina Seminar
Chapel Hill, NC 27514 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. At Carolina, we hope we can bring this perspective to the work of the South by providing our own infrastructure. We envision a different kind of “south,” where students and faculty can engage issues of reparation and sovereignty, (im)migration and…
Find out more »Queer Indigeneity and Anti-Authoritarianism in Brazil
Chapel Hill NC, 27516 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 questions will be explored through a critical discussion of oral testimonies, and archival records that show queer native activists’ struggles against authoritarianism in Brazil. Estevão Fernandes teaches in the Social Sciences Department at the Federal University of Rondônia in Brazil,…
Find out more »Trained to Kill: How Police Training Denied the Complex Innocence of Antonio Zambrano Montes
Chapel Hill NC, 27516 United States
Dr. Lisa Marie Cacho examines the police shooting of Antonio Zambrano-Montes, an undocumented Latino immigrant who was throwing rocks when he was shot. Instead of trying to figure out why a specific shooting happened or making a case for why a specific victim was more innocent than not, she starts with the premise that no shootings should be automatically justified and that all people—even if in the act of committing a crime—are complexly innocent. Co-sponsored by The Consortium in Latin…
Find out more »January 2020
Tiffany Lethabo King
Chapel Hill, NC 27599 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, Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal—an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea—as metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize the encounter between Black studies and Native studies. King conceptualizes the shoal as a space where Black…
Find out more »July 2020
Virtual Book Launch: Engaging the African Diaspora in K through 12 Education
Engaging the African Diaspora in K-12 Education provides in-service and pre-service teachers with valuable information and resources related to African diaspora communities in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. This unique anthology fills an important gap in current pedagogical and curricular publications by combining the writings of leading scholars of the African diaspora with practical, hands-on tips and resources from middle and high school teachers and administrators. Drawing on cutting-edge academic scholarship, chapters of the book address topics such…
Find out more »September 2020
“Sharing Black and Native Voices” with Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery and Dr. Arwin Smallwood
Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery and Dr. Arwin Smallwood will facilitate a discussion titled "Sharing Black and Native Histories" where they explore and discuss the shared histories and experiences of American Indians and African Americans in the United States, particularly their efforts to combat and abate White supremacy and social injustice. They will also delve into how American Indians, Africans and Europeans shaped the history of North Carolina. This talk is part of UNC Pembroke's Virtual Diversity Series and is co-sponsored…
Find out more »October 2020
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 attend the Zoom Webinar. “In a gripping narrative,” writes Glenda Gilmore, C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale, “Segrest retells southern history through the experiences of patients committed to the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot and Epileptic Asylum.”…
Find out more »November 2020
What Comes Next? A Post-Election Discussion with Jill McCorkle, Gene Nichol, Kerry Haynie, Belle Boggs, Wiley Cash and Malinda Maynor Lowery
What just happened? What is happening now? What must happen next? Join NC writers Gene Nichol, Kerry Haynie, Belle Boggs, Wiley Cash and Malinda Maynor Lowery for a discussion about the election and our next steps. This event is hosted by Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill.
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