The Virginia Roots of Today's Radical Right & the Crisis of American Democracy
The Virginia Roots of Today's Radical Right & the Crisis of American Democracy
Clark Hall Room 108
In a presentation co-sponsored by the Department of History, the Power, Violence, and Inequality Collective, and the American Studies Program, Nancy MacLean, the William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, discusses her new book "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America."
Engaging Race: Black Girls Matter
November 12, 2015
Panel: the Politics of the Debt Ceiling Crisis
This panel discussion, "The Politics of the Debt Ceiling Crisis," held at the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia was free and open to the public.
Does Reparations Have a Future? Rethinking Racial Justice in a 'Color-Blind' Era
Organized by Deborah McDowell (Alice Griffin Professor of English and Director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies), Kim Forde-Mazrui (William S.
The Problem of Punishment: Race, Inequality and Justice
Organized by faculty members in the Departments of English (Deborah McDowell), History (Claudrena Harold) and Politics (Vesla Weaver), this multi-disciplinary symposium, sponsored by the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, will examine the historical, political, economic, and socio-cultural roots, as well as the myriad implications of the rise in incarceration in the United States.
Participants include:
Mahmood Mamdani: Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
Keynote Lecture by Mahmood Mamdani for the Religion and Democracy on the African Continent Conference. The two-day event featured scholars of Africana Studies, Religious Studies, Anthropology, History, Sociology, Law, and Politics, who shared their expertise on religion and democracy, its colonial legacies and post-colonial possibilities.
Amphibious Subjects: Book Talk
Book talk for Kwame E. Otu's first monograph: Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana
Meet the Fellows: 2022
Our annual event returns to an in-person format for the first time since 2019! Join us to learn about the work of the new and returning Woodson fellows. Each fellow will provide a brief overview of their current research project.
Caribbean Borderlands: Postnationalism Prefigured @20
The Conversations in Caribbean Studies series presents a series of panels and roundtables in honor of the 20th anniversary of Prof. Carnegie’s book: Postnationalism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands
"Conversations in Caribbean Studies" Book Chat with Faith Smith
A "Conversations in Caribbean Studies" Book Chat with Faith Smith Faith L Smith (Brandeis University). We're celebrating the publication of her new book, Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean’s Non-sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century