February « 2016 « Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Monica Simpson, Executive Director of SisterSong, the National Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective – February 17, 2016

Wednesday, Feb. 17, 7 p.m., Gallery Theatre (Part of the GRIOT, African-American Art, Activism & Aesthetics Series) Monica Simpson is the Executive Director of SisterSong, the National Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. As an activist, organizer, and artist, Monica has been widely recognized and admired for her relentless support and activism on social justice issues, especially affecting the LGBT and African-American communities. In addition to being widely recognized for her activism and philanthropic efforts, Monica founded Charlotte, North Carolina’s first Black Gay Pride Celebration and Charlotte’;s African-American Giving Circle. She was also the first person of color to […]

Film Showing – The Price of the Ticket (part of the Tuesday Night Bucknell Film/Media Series) – February 9, 2016

Tuesday, Feb. 9, 7 p.m., Campus Theatre The film recounts the life, works and beliefs of the late writer and civil rights activist and addresses what it is to be born black, impoverished, gifted, and gay in a world that has yet to understand that “all men are brothers.” James Baldwin tells his own story in this emotional portrait. Using rarely-seen archival footage from nine different countries, the film melds intimate interviews and eloquent public speeches with cinéma vérité glimpses of Baldwin and original scenes from his extraordinary funeral service in December 1987. His close friends and colleagues – even […]

Nick Jones (Spanish Department) “Out of the Mouths of Slaves: Africanized Iberian Languages in Imperial Iberia” – February 4, 2016

In this talk, Jones will look at cultural history and literary study of white appropriations of black African voices in Portuguese and Spanish texts from the 1500s through 1700s, a span of time when the composition and performance of Africanized Iberian languages were in vogue. A study in genre, performance, and a critique of ideology, this talk uses early modern and colonial literary and non-literary texts from Portugal, Spain, and their transoceanic colonial territories to make claims for and theorize the existence of the formation of black diasporic life and identity across the Luso-Hispanic imperial world.

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Archive for February, 2016

Monica Simpson, Executive Director of SisterSong, the National Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective – February 17, 2016

Film Showing – The Price of the Ticket (part of the Tuesday Night Bucknell Film/Media Series) – February 9, 2016

Nick Jones (Spanish Department) “Out of the Mouths of Slaves: Africanized Iberian Languages in Imperial Iberia” – February 4, 2016

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