Category: Race

New Directions in Black Feminist Studies: A Speaker Series

by alicee • October 1, 2018 • Comments Off

Mireille Miller-Young
UC Santa Barbara
Friday, Oct. 19, 2018
Gerlinger Lounge, 12 p.m.
Black Feminism, Labor, Sex Work
Emily A. Owens
Brown University
Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018
EMU 145–Crater Lake South, 12 p.m.
Sexuality, Slavery, Affect
Ethnic Studies Speaker, Peggy Pascoe Memorial Lecture
Erica R. Edwards
Rutgers
Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019
EMU 145–Crater Lake South, 12 p.m.
Feminism, Internationalism, State Power
Jennifer C. Nash
Northwestern
Thursday, Apr. 18, 2019
EMU 145–Crater Lake South, 12 […]

Black Latina the Play

by alicee • July 17, 2018 • Comments Off

[ October 19, 2018; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Hope Theatre
Free admission

UO Latinx Strategies Group, UO Black Strategies Group, and UO Theatre Arts present:

Black Latina the Play on Friday, Oct 19th at 7:30pm at the Hope Theatre

BLACK LATINA IS one STORY OF BEING A BLACK LATINA IN THE U.S.

Performance followed by a conversation with writer and director Ms. Crystal Roman

Event information: blogs.uoregon.edu/blacklatina

Two workshops will be […]

New Directions in Black Feminist Studies: Mireille Miller-Young

by alicee • July 16, 2018 • Comments Off

[ October 19, 2018; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Friday, Oct. 19, 2018
Gerlinger Lounge, 12 p.m.

Black Feminism, Labor, Sex Work

Mireille Miller-Young, PhD, is associate professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research explores race, gender and sexuality in visual culture and sex industries in the United States. Her book, A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women and Pornography (Duke […]

Michelle McKinley’s “Fractional Freedoms” now out in paperback

by alicee • July 10, 2018 • Comments Off

Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600–1700
by Michelle A. McKinley, Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon
Cambridge University Press (Paperback, 2018)
Part of Studies in Legal History
Recently released in paperback, Fractional Freedoms is CSWS director Michelle McKinley’s award-winning book on urban slavery in colonial Latin America. Fractional Freedoms is the winner of the […]

Patricia Matthew, “Written/Unwritten: On the Promise and Limits of Diversity and Inclusion”

by alicee • July 6, 2018 • Comments Off

[ October 17, 2018; 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. ] EMU 230 | Swindells
Erb Memorial Union
1222 E. 13th St.

Faculty, administrators, and graduate students have an opportunity to explore issues of faculty diversity with Patricia Matthew, the editor of Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure (University of North Carolina Press, 2016) at 3:30 pm Wednesday, Oct. 17, in EMU 230, the Swindells room. Her lecture is titled […]