2017-18 « Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Michelle Harris: “Contemporary Indigeneity and the Politics of Being” – October 17, 2018

Michelle Harris is the director of the Institute for Global Indigeneity and a professor in the Department of Africana Studies at The University at Albany, SUNY. She is the covener of Working Group on Emergent Indigenous Identities and a co-editor and contributor to the volume, The Politics of Identity: Emergent Indigeneity (2013). Her scholarship explores indigennous identity construction and expression and the Internationalization of the Indigenous Studies.

“RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World” – October 2, 2018

Film introduced by Obed Lira (Spanish) and Cymone Fourshey (History and International Relations). The Center for Race, Ethnicity & Gender will present a screening of the film Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World. The showing is sponsored by the Bucknell Film/Media Studies Program as part of the Tuesday Film Series. Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World is a 2017 documentary about the role of Native Americans in popular music history.

Kyle T. Mays – “We Still Here: Indigenous Hip Hop, Resisting (settler) Colonialism, and the Politics of Possibility” – September 25, 2018

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Dorothy Allison – “A Racecar Named Desire: Stories of Class, Race, Sexuality and Gender” – April 17, 2018

Story shapes our world—the stories we have been told, the stories we read or watch or imagine—the ‘what if’ narratives, the ‘I could not stand it if they did that’ prayers, and most important of all—this is why I am the way I am stories. Examining the stories we love or hate or need to believe can tell us a great deal about the way the world works, and how it might be changed. In this lecture, Dorothy Allison will address the significance of story in relationship to themes of class, race, sexuality and gender.

Katherine Faull: “Race, Religion, and Iron: A Case of Knowledge Transfer between West Africa and the Colonial Mid-Atlantic States? – February 6, 2018

While recent scholarship has focused on knowledge transfer from African cultures to the Americas concerning inter alia rice production (see Sept 2016’s visiting PBK scholar, Judith Carney, Black Rice) there has to date been little work that traces the links between the production of iron in West Africa and the small Colonial iron forges of the mid-Atlantic region. This paper asks the question about the connection between labor practices in the nascent Colonial iron industry, enslaved peoples of African descent, and the reports of itinerant (Euro- and African-American) Moravian preachers in the NJ, PA, NY area in the mid-18th century. […]

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Archive for the 2017-18 Category

Michelle Harris: “Contemporary Indigeneity and the Politics of Being” – October 17, 2018

“RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World” – October 2, 2018

Kyle T. Mays – “We Still Here: Indigenous Hip Hop, Resisting (settler) Colonialism, and the Politics of Possibility” – September 25, 2018

Dorothy Allison – “A Racecar Named Desire: Stories of Class, Race, Sexuality and Gender” – April 17, 2018

Katherine Faull: “Race, Religion, and Iron: A Case of Knowledge Transfer between West Africa and the Colonial Mid-Atlantic States? – February 6, 2018

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