"Welcome. “Ethnic Studies Rise” is a public humanities effort to honor the extraordinary contributions of scholar Dr. Lorgia García Peña."We will accomplish this in two ways: First, through a Roundtable, which will provide resources and entry points to consider the importance of Ethnic Studies to contemporary thought worldwide. Second, via the LorgiaFest, we will share, re-center, and … Continue reading DIGITAL/NEWS: Ethnic Studies Rise! #LorgiaFest
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AWARDS: Organization of American Historians 2018 List
Awardees of interest include Brittney C. Cooper, Tiya Miles (twice), Edward L. Ayers, Richard White, Ula Yvette Taylor, Deirdre Cooper Owens, Ashley D. Farmer, Tera W. Hunter, C. Riley Snorton (honorable mention), Alexandra J. Finley, and Nakia D. Parker. The OAH sponsors and co-sponsors dozens of awards, grants, and fellowships annually. Here are the 2018 … Continue reading AWARDS: Organization of American Historians 2018 List
The Junto Blog Announces New Bloggers
Looking forward to the Junto reboot featuring new bloggers, including historians of slavery Vanessa Holden and Ebony Jones. Also new: Carla Cevasco, an assistant professor of history at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and scholar of food, medicine and the body, and material culture in early America and the Atlantic world. Elbra David, who recently finished a … Continue reading The Junto Blog Announces New Bloggers
NEWS: SUNY Launches “Afro-Latinx Futures” Book Series
Exciting new book series!! With Vanessa K. Valdéz as Series Editor and Rebecca Colesworthy as Acquisitions Editor: https://twitter.com/SUNYPress/status/976100164480978944 The Afro-Latinx Futures series is committed to publishing scholarly monographs and edited collections that center Blackness and Afrolatinidad from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives in the humanities and social sciences. Taking a hemispheric approach, … Continue reading NEWS: SUNY Launches “Afro-Latinx Futures” Book Series
NEWS: A Statement on Hurricane Irma | Small Axe Project
Small Axe issues a statement in the wake of Hurricane Irma: "As Hurricane Irma makes its way up the Caribbean archipelago, with such devastating effect, we in the Small Axe Project wish to extend our thoughts to all those in the region who have already been affected, and to urge those in its path to … Continue reading NEWS: A Statement on Hurricane Irma | Small Axe Project
ARTICLES: Connolly and Fuentes Co-Edit Special Issue on Archives of Slavery
Scholars of slavery engage history, archives, Saidiya Hartman, and violence, in a recent History of the Present. From the introduction by Brian Connolly and Marisa Fuentes: "This special issue of the journal asks how the violence of the archives of slavery contributes to the production of a history of our present. What is at stake in … Continue reading ARTICLES: Connolly and Fuentes Co-Edit Special Issue on Archives of Slavery
NEWS: AHA Statement on Confederate Monuments (August 2017) | AHA
History comprises both facts and interpretations of those facts. To remove a monument, or to change the name of a school or street, is not to erase history, but rather to alter or call attention to a previous interpretation of history. A monument is not history itself; a monument commemorates an aspect of history, representing a moment in the past when a public or private decision defined who would be honored in a community’s public spaces...
NEWS: Under pressure to reconcile racist past, Wesleyan College joins slavery study group | AJC
Wesleyan College of Macon, Georgia joins USS--the only college in Georgia to do so. Atlanta-Journal Constitution reports: "The July 26 announcement on the Universities Studying Slavery (USS) website welcomed Wesleyan to the group administered out of the University of Virginia. “We are thrilled to add another school to this growing movement of institutions addressing past entanglement in … Continue reading NEWS: Under pressure to reconcile racist past, Wesleyan College joins slavery study group | AJC
NEWS: The UWI establishes Center for Reparations Research – Repeating Islands
via Repeating Islands: "The Centre, which will be led by Professor Verene Shepherd, former Director of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, co-Chair of the National Council on Reparation (Jamaica) and one of the three Vice Chairs of the CARICOM Reparations Commission, is based on a mandate of the 34th meeting of the CARICOM … Continue reading NEWS: The UWI establishes Center for Reparations Research – Repeating Islands
NEWS: A Statement On Race and Medieval Studies
A Collective of Medievalists of Color issues a statement on racism in the profession and in their field: "We, the Medievalists of Color, need our colleagues to understand the systemic racism of which we speak and the role it has continued to play in our field’s constitution and practices; to educate themselves in the critical … Continue reading NEWS: A Statement On Race and Medieval Studies
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