Congratulations Professor Christina Greene! She is was awarded the 2023 Julia Cherry Spruill Prize for Best Book on Southern Women’s History, (Southern Association of Women Historians) for her book Free Joan Little: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment.
The Department of African American Studies fully supports the Blk Pwr Coalition and the students who have spoken out against the vile, racist video from a UW student that surfaced recently on social media. We see you, we hear you, we care about you. We are dismayed by the silence of so many campus units. The burden …
The Department of Afro-American Studies stands in solidarity with the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Asian American Studies Program Response to Anti-Asian Violence: https://asianamerican.wisc.edu/2021/03/17/response-to-anti-asian-violence/ Resources to Support Our APIDA Community: https://diversity.wisc.edu/asian-pacific-islander-desi-american-support-resources/ The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Statement in Response to the Atlanta Shootings: https://news.wisc.edu/statement-in-response-to-atlanta-shootings/
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The UW-Madison Department of History & the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies Present: The 2021 Paul J. Schrag Lecture “The American Influence on Nazi Race Law: Assessing U.S. Responsibility” James Q. Whitman (Yale) Co-sponsored by The Department of Afro-American Studies
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $5 million to fund an interdisciplinary, multi-year project to advance anti-racist practices and pedagogy in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM). Associate Professor Christy Clark-Pujara is part of this research team Selected as one of 16 winning projects in the Mellon Foundation’s “Just Futures Initiative” competition, the …
AAS Letter re SRO Contract To: Members of the Madison School Board of Education From: The Department of Afro-American Studies RE: Security Resource Officers Date: June 29, 2020 As scholars and teachers of African American history and experience – and, for some of us, as parents of current and former Madison public school …
Statement of Solidarity in Support of George Floyd The Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is appalled, outraged and heartbroken by the brutal and senseless murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in our sister state of Minnesota. Unfortunately and sadly, we are not surprised. Mr. Floyd’s murder comes on the heels of the Louisville police shooting …
In these days of pandemic crisis, the Afro-American Studies Department stands in solidarity and community with Asian and Asian American, people both on and off campus. We abhor the xenophobia that has inaccurately and unfairly blamed these communities for the spread of the current COVID-19 virus. As scholars of race and African American experience, we understand the harm that is inflicted when communities of color are unjustly scapegoated, harassed and attacked. We applaud …