Category: Race

Rhaisa Williams, “Screaming to Dream: Toni Morrison, Emmett Till, and Black Maternal Grief”

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Gerlinger Lounge, 1468 University St. Lorwin Lectureship Series Rhaisa Kameela Williams is assistant professor of Theater and Performance Studies in the Performing Arts Department at Washington University in St. Louis. Williams’ research uses mixed-archive methods—spanning across literature, family history, archives,…

Tiffany L. King, “The When and Where of Our Talk: The Shoals of Black and Native Feminisms”

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Knight Library, Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium “The When and Where of Our Talk: The Shoals of Black and Native Feminisms” Tiffany Lethabo King, Georgia State University Tiffany Lethabo King is an assistant…

“Producers, Parasites, Patriots” — a new book by Daniel HoSang & Joseph Lowndes

Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity, by Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) Joseph E. Lowndes is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University…

Samantha Irby, Keynote Speaker: Women in Media Symposium

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182 Lillis 955 E. 13th Ave. UO campusFor full information about the symposium: https://library.uoregon.edu/women_media_symposium Samantha Irby is a popular comedian and author who writes a blog called Bitches Gotta Eat. Her first book, Meaty, follows Irby through failed relationships, taco…

“Counterplanning from the Kitchen Table: June Jordan and the Domestic Literary Enterprise, 1979-1985”

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EMU 145: Crater Lake South. University of Oregon New Directions in Black Feminist Studies Speaker SeriesEthnic Studies Speaker, Peggy Pascoe Memorial Lecture Speaker Speaker: Dr. Erica Edwards (Rutgers) “Counterplanning from the Kitchen Table: June Jordan and the Domestic Literary Enterprise, 1979-1985”…