Assistant Professor Ana-Maurine Lara, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, has been awarded the Ruth Benedict Prize of the Association for Queer Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association for her book Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty (SUNY Press 2020), out this month. Congratulations to Ana!
The citation reads: In Queer Freedom: Black SovereiIgnty, Lara offers a […]
Tara Fickle
CSWS faculty affiliate Tara Fickle, associate professor of English, has been named a 2020 American Book Award winner for her first book, The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities (New York University Press).
The book publisher describes The Race Card as follows: “As Pokémon Go reshaped our neighborhood geographies and the human flows […]
CoDaC is ready to support your research, writing, and sense of faculty community and support as we begin Fall Term. The center has a robust schedule of Faculty Writing Circles set to start in Week 1 of Fall term.
Nine writing times are available, including Parent/Caretaker circles designed to meet the needs of those of […]
Editor’s Note: From Around The O, September 7, 2020. Several CSWS faculty affiliates teach courses in Black Studies.
Black Panthers speak on the UO campus in support of a Black student protest at OSU in the late 1960s. (Image: Organa/Oregon Digital)
It’s been a long time coming, but UO students can now minor in Black studies.
The university […]
Editor’s note: Additional faculty affiliate videos have been released and are added to this story.
IntroDUCKtion, the University of Oregon’s summer orientation experience for incoming students, went virtual this summer, giving new Ducks an opportunity to dive into faculty research through the program’s new Faculty Perspectives video series. Several CSWS faculty affiliates have contributed to the […]
Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty, by Ana-Maurine Lara (SUNY Press, Afro-Latinx Futures Series, 2020, 200 pages). “Theoretically wide-ranging and deeply personal and poetic, Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty is based on more than three years of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic. Ana-Maurine Lara draws on her engagement in traditional ceremonies, observations of national Catholic celebrations, […]
