College of Letters & Science
Simon Balto, a former graduate student, was awarded the Nation Endowment for the Humanities 2020-2021 academic grant for his project entitled: Racial Framing: Blackfaced Criminals in Jim Crow America. The controversy over early-2019 revelations that Virginia politicians had donned blackface in their college years has generated a resurgence of interest in the history and …
Area Youth Getting Ready to Mobilize at MLK Day Youth Call to Service
Bright Ideas are back! Leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs and people who are doing interesting things share their bright ideas for 2020 with the Cap Times. Find them posted here throughout the week and in print on Jan. 8.
For Tejumola Olaniyan: Scholar, Teacher, Mentor, Father. Note: This is a very long post. In my moment of grief, I take solace in writing this reflection to process my confusion and sadness. Thank you to everyone who has checked on me. Thanks for your messages, calls, and responses to my first desperate Facebook post. The …
Last week the Department of Afro-American Studies co-sponsored a residency by Maxine Gordon who discussed her book, Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon with Professor Ethelene Whitmire accompanied by music from the University of Wisconsin students in the UW Blue Note Ensemble. “Photos courtesy of Amadou Kromah/The Capital City Hues
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
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 African women in the transatlantic Slave trade, arguing that they are key to understanding the development of early modern racial …
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 Wisconsin Book Festival event features jazz historian Maxine Gordon reading from her new book about Dexter and includes an on-stage …
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."
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 highlight how otherwise modes of being, feeling, speaking, and writing defamiliarize and destabilize hegemonic productions of race, gender, sexuality, and …