Events
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Nov 11The Troubles Between Us: Race Work, Memory, and Kivie Kaplan in the NAACP
Dr. Holly McGee (University of Cincinnati)
Pyle Center, AT&T Lounge
This talk explores the complex history of Black–Jewish relations in the United States through the life and leadership of Kivie Kaplan, an influential yet often overlooked president of the NAACP. Drawing on extensive archival research, Dr. Holly Y. McGee challenges the popular narrative of a “golden age” of Black–Jewish cooperation, revealing instead a history shaped by both …
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Nov 11A Conversation on Carcerality
Max Felker-Kantor and Kyle Miron
Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall #4281
Max Felker-Kantor, Associate Professor of African American Studies “The Legality of Police Lawlessness: The War on Gangs and LAPD’s Rampart Scandal” In this talk, which is based on my book manuscript entitled Lawless: The War on Gangs and the LAPD’s Rampart, I will examine the war on gangs of the 1990s and the Los Angeles Police …
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Nov 18Shonda Rhimes and the Politics of 21st Century Black Ladyhood (In Dialogue)
Dr. Keisha Lindsay
Join Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (and African American Studies affiliate), Dr. Keisha Lindsay, for her lecture entitled “Shonda Rhimes and the Politics of 21st Century Black Ladyhood”. This interdisciplinary monthly series, hosted by the Department of African American Studies at UW–Madison, invites undergraduate and graduate students to join scholars, artists, and writers who …
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Dec 10
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Feb 192027 Student Symposium
Tripp Commons, UW-Madison Memorial Union Learn more.
This interdisciplinary symposium is open to undergraduate and graduate students from any discipline whose work centers or intersects with Black studies and Black people.