"Choice" has become the buzz word across the policy spectrum, especially in housing, schools, and health care. This talk questions the assumptions, ideology and philosophy undergirding public school choice, using data from two projects. The first focuses on how black community leaders work with whites to bring "choice" schools to a gentrifying black neighborhood in Chicago.

Video from the annual event "Meet the Fellows" to welcome new members of the Carter G. Woodson's distinguished fellowship program.

Extended description of the Fellows and their projects (in order of appearance):

Tiffany Barber Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Art and Art History) University of Rochester "Undesirability and the Value of Blackness in Contemporary Art"

Lyndsey Beutin Pre-Doctoral Fellow University of Pennsylvania (Annenberg School for Communication) "If Slavery’s Not Black: The stakes of the U.S. State Department’s campaign against human trafficking"

Panel discussion on the new book "Julian Bond's Time To Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement" with co-editors Pamela Horowitz and Jeanne Theoharis. Moderated by Kevin Gaines, Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice at UVA

Following the death of the pioneering dub musician, Lee "Scratch" Perry, this panel brings together scholars and musicians who have worked with him and whose work is inspired by him.

together leading Jamaican and international dub/’Scratch’ Perry scholars, producers and musicians who have worked with him and whose work is inspired by him. In the lead up to the event, be sure to check out the Spotify playlist curated by the panelists: spoti.fi/3FIEbhm.

'Reading Sula: A Tribute to Toni Morrison' brought together volunteers to read Toni Morrison’s second novel “Sula.”

From 9:30 am to 4:30 pm in Minor 110, volunteers will read passages from the novel. Drop in at any point during this window to listen to or to participate in reading the novel! We will have light refreshments during the event.

Following the reading, there will be a roundtable discussion from 5:00 pm to 6:00pm in Minor 125. 

Panelists include:

As a virtual edition of our annual "Transcribe-a-thon," this panel culminated a day-long program in which participants read Julian Bond's speeches.

During the Woodson Institute's annual event "Meet the Fellows," we welcome new pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellows to the fellowship program

The Carter G. Woodson's distinguished fellowship program. This is the first virtual "Meet the Fellows" event.

The 2019 edition of our annual "Meet the Fellows" event was hosted in Minor 110. We welcome new pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellows to the Carter G. Woodson's distinguished fellowship program.

Keynote address by André Brock, Associate Professor of Media Studies at Georgia Tech, for the Interrogating Digital Blackness symposium

sponsored by the Page Barbour Lecture series. 

Listening Roundtable on A.D. Carson's "SLEEPWALKING 2 [a mixtape/e/ssay | OTR]"

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Introductory remarks by Njelle Hamilton, Assistant Professor at the Carter G. Woodson Institute and UVA's Department of English. 

Panelists included: