Category: African Diasporas

Ana Lara wins Ruth Benedict Prize

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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…

Caribbean Women Healers project completes first phase

On April 22, the Caribbean Women Healers: Decolonizing Knowledge in AfroIndigenous Traditions Digital Humanities Project launched the first phase of their website to an enthusiastic online audience. The project’s social media reached around 5,000 people in one day and RSVPs…

Postponed: John Collins, “Recent Crises in Representation and Racialized Mediation”

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NOTE: This talk will be rescheduled for AY 2020-21. Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium John Collins, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Queens College & the CUNY Graduate Center Since the mid-1990s, John Collins has conducted ethnographic research on UNESCO world heritage…

Christen Smith, “The Sequelae of Black Life in Brazil and the US: Violence, Gender, Space and Time”

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Knight Library      Browsing Room      1501 Kincaid St.    UO campus Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium “The Sequelae of Black Life in Brazil and the US: Violence, Gender, Space and Time” Christen Smith, Associate Professor of African and African…

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

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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…