An Evening with Jazz Author Maxine Gordon & the UW Blue Note Ensemble Thursday, October 31st at 7:30 pm Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue Free Admission
Month: October 2019
Madwomen on the Slave Ship
Madwomen on the Slave Ship : reproduction and racial capitalism Presented by Jennifer L. Morgan Wednesday, November 13th 4:00-6:00 pm Pyle Center, ATT Lounge In this talk, Jennifer Morgan explores the capture and transport of …
An Evening with Jazz Author Maxine Gordon & the UW Blue Note Ensemble
Thursday, October 31st 7:30pm, Collins Recital Hall in the UW Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue. Free admission. Celebrating the life and legacy of legendary jazz saxophonist Dexter Gordon in words and music, this …
African Americans In Europe: London, Copenhagen, and Paris
Next Wednesday, October 16th, Afro-American Studies Professor Ethelene Whitmire will be on a panel about African Americans in Europe: London, Copenhagen, and Paris in Chicago at the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago. “African Americans have been traveling to and living in Europe since and before the end of slavery, right up to the present. Perhaps most famously noted in the writings of James Baldwin. Join us for a discussion of some of the varied aspects of this long and wonderfully complex story.”
The Department of Afro-American Studies welcomes 2 new faculty members.
Brittney Michelle Edmonds is an interdisciplinary scholar of 20th and 21st Century African American literature and culture. She researches and specializes in the study of black critical humor after 1968. Her scholarship and her courses …
The Department of Afro-American Studies welcomes 2 new faculty members.
Mosi Adesina Ifatunji is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Afro American Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he also holds affiliations in the Department of Sociology and at the Center …