UVA's Woodson Institute to hold symposium on the NAACP
October 19, 2009 — The nation's oldest, largest and most widely recognized civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is 100 years old this year.
Woodson Institute marks 75 years of "Their Eyes were Watching God"
University of Virginia English professor Deborah McDowell was in graduate school when she first read Zora Neale Hurston. Women on college campuses and in living rooms in the mid-1970s were passing around out-of-print, dog-eared copies of her books, especially “Their Eyes Were Watching God.”
CGWI Celebrates Centennial of Richard Wright's Birth
April 3, 2008 — "Juvenile Delinquent Becomes Famous Writer" — that's how one critic described author Richard Wright.
The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia will celebrate and explore the life and work of this influential author during a two-day celebration to mark the 100th anniversary of Richard Wright's birth on Thursday, April 10 and Friday, April 11. All events, free and open to the public, will be held in the Harrison Institute-Small Special Collections Library Auditorium.
Deborah E. McDowell Named Carter G. Woodson Institute Director at the University of Virginia
April 23, 2008 — Deborah E. McDowell, the Alice Griffin Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Virginia, has been named director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at U.Va. She had been interim director for the past year, overseeing an active year of programming.
UVA's Carter G. Woodson Institute Celebrating its 25th Anniversary
April 19, 2007- When the University of Virginia established the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies in 1981, it was the first such research center at a southern university. Now approaching its 25th anniversary, the institute will be recognized at a symposium to be held on April 20 and 21, “Celebrating the Legacy, Scholarship and Future of the Woodson Institute.” Featuring a series of panel discussions and a keynote address by economist and professor William A. Darity, the symposium is free and open to the public.
Woodson Fellowships Making Widespread Impact on the Academy
December 7, 2011 — The University of California, Berkeley; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the University of Michigan; Princeton University – these are just a few of the schools where former fellows from the University of Virginia's Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies have secured academic positions.
News on Fellows: Former Fellow Tera W. Hunter writes on Confederate Memorialization
Published in the December 2017 Issue of Princeton Alumni Weekly
Both the creation of the memorial wall and the alumni donation marked significant departures in tone and substance from Princeton’s initial memorialization of the Civil War, honoring only the dead soldiers of the United States. What transpired in the intervening years? A national political, economic, and cultural reckoning helps to explain the revived controversy about Civil War monuments today.
To Joy My Freedom: A Symposium on Black Feminist Histories
December 2017 Symposium on Tera Hunter's groundbreaking book To Joy My Freedom: Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War
The Slavery Since Emancipation Speaker Series
Talk Description: Four "peculiar institutions" have served to define and confine African Americans in U.S. society over the past four centuries: racialized slavery, the Jim Crow system of caste terrorism, the urban ghetto, and the hybrid formed by the concatenation of the hyperghetto and the carceral system. In this lecture, Professor Wacquant will discuss their similarities and differences and draw out the consequences of this historical model for the current scholarly and policy debates around race and citizenship.
The Slavery Since Emancipation Speaker Series
Talk Description: This lecture will explore the history of slavery and racial oppression from a policy standpoint. Discussion will focus on how systemic oppression has historically led to the current factors tied to the exploitation of minority and immigrant populations for commercial sex and labor. The lecture will take a human rights approach with a racial justice lens.
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