Past Events
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Sep 11Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequality
Sewell Social Science Building in Room 8417
Learn more and register for this event here.
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Sep 9Ethnic Studies Mixer
Memorial Union – Tripp Commons
Network, mingle, and share ideas with peers and faculty at the Ethnic Studies Mixer to get a positive start to your semester: When: September 9th from 1-3 pm Where: Memorial Union – Tripp Commons The Department of African American Studies is co-hosting this event with the Women’s and Gender Studies department. All Ethnic Studies majors, certificates, and …
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Mar 23Doria Dee Johnson Lecture
Pyle Center #121
Doria Dee Johnson Lecture in History & Social Justice Harlem’s Emmet Till The Short Life and Long Death of Walter Vandermeer
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Mar 24
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Oct 16African Americans in Europe
Chicago at the School of Arts Institute of Chicago
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. …
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May 13Book Reading: Simon Balto- Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago
A Room of One's Own Website
A Room of One’s Own is thrilled to welcome Simon Balto, author of Occupied Territory! In Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power, a history of Chicago from 1919 to the rise and fall of Black Power in the 1960s and 1970s, Simon Balto narrates the evolution of racially repressive policing in black neighborhoods as …