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In this ASWAD sponsored event, Dr. Aisha Khan will discuss her new book: The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World (Harvard University Press)
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Conversations in Caribbean Studies Book Chat with Carmen Lamas, author of The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, Translation, and Historiography (Oxford UP, 2021)
Respondent: Marissa Lopez (UCLA), author of Racial Immanence: Chicanx Bodies beyond Representation (NYU Press, 2019).
Hosted by Marlene L. Daut, Professor of American and African Diaspora Studies, University of Virginia
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.
The fellowship program has supported the work of over 180 emerging scholars who have gone on to shape the field of black studies scholarship.
The African American and African Studies curriculum exposes students to the lives and experiences of people in the global African diaspora.
Conversations in Caribbean Studies Book Chat with Carmen Lamas, author of The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, Translation, and Historiography (Oxford UP, 2021). Respondent: Marissa Lopez (UCLA), author of Racial Immanence: Chicanx Bodies beyond Representation (NYU Press, 2019).
Conversations in Caribbean Studies Book Chat with Robert Fatton, Jr., author of The Guise of the Exceptionalism: Unmasking the National Narratives of Haiti and the United States (Rutgers UP, 2021). Respondent: Chelsea Stieber (Catholic University of America), author of Haiti’s Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954 (NYU Press, 2020).
October 13: Allen F. Isaacman & Barbara S. Isaacman (Department of History, University of Minnesota; and a retired criminal defense attorney, respectively) will speak about the activism and research that led to their recent book, Mozambique’s Samora Machel: A Life Cut Short.
November 17: Robert Trent Vinson (Director, Carter G. Woodson Institute, The University of Virginia) will present "Rapping Zulus: Afrika Bambaataa, the Universal Zulu Nation, and the Global Spread of Progressive Hip-Hop Cultures." His talk will also give the ASC community the chance to meet the new Director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies.
November 10: Elyan Hill (Department of Art History, Southern Methodist University) will deliver a talk titled “Altars in Motion: Embodied Visualities in Togolese Sacred Arts,” which explores how contemporary Ewe altars and dance in Togo honor enslaved ancestors, and reenact histories of trade and forced migration.
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