Category: Books

Racial Representations: African American Literature Since 1975

[ April 26, 2013; 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. ] a

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Gerlinger Hall Alumni Lounge
1468 University St.
UO campus

A group of innovative scholars who specialize in African American literature will gather at the University of Oregon to give talks about their research on April 26, 2013 from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. This free symposium is open to the public and will take place in the Alumni […]

The Hidden Ways Microfinance Hurts Women

The Hidden Ways Microfinance Hurts Women | Brandeis Magazine.
Lamia Karim’s book, Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh, (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) is featured in the Fall 2012/ Winter 2013 issue of Brandeis Magazine. An associate professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon and the former associate director of the Center […]

Book Talk — Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music: The Limits of La Onda

[ April 24, 2013; 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm. ] 111 Alder Building
818 E. 15th Ave.

Deb Vargas is an associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of California at Riverside. She earned her PhD in sociology with an emphasis in feminist studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her research includes Chicano and Latino cultural studies, critical race feminisms, queer-of-color critique, popular […]

Fembot Launches Books Aren’t Dead, a New Monthly Podcast Interview

December 3, 2012—The Fembot Collective today launched its new monthly podcast interview, Books Aren’t Dead (BAD). BAD is Fembot’s series of monthly interviews with feminist authors of recent books on media, science, and technology. Fembot’s first BAD podcast is with Joan Haran (Cardiff University) who interviews Sarah Kember (Goldsmiths, University of London) on her latest […]

“Bachelors, Boxing, and Boy-ology: American Catholicism in the ‘City of Men’, 1880-1930”

[ March 6, 2013; 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. ] 375 McKenzie
1101 Kincaid St.
UO campus

Professor Amy Koehlinger’s lecture derives from her forthcoming book, Rosaries and Rope Burns: Boxing and Manhood in American Catholicism, 1890-1970. Koehlinger holds a Ph.D in religious studies from Yale and an M.A. in history from the University of Oregon. She has published widely on the history of American Catholicism and was […]

Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century—coedited by Daniel HoSang

Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Daniel Martinez HoSang, Oneka LaBennett, and Laura Pulido (University of California Press, 2012)
Publisher’s Description
Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States remains one of the most influential and widely read books about race. Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century, arriving 25 years after the publication of Omi and […]