Don’t miss 400 Years of Inequality: Breaking the Cycle of Systemic Racism
School of Public Health and Howard Thurman Center presents: 400 Years of Inequality: Breaking the Cycle of Systemic Racism Friday, October 18th, 8:30 am to 2:30 pm in the Hierbert Lounge, 72 East Concord Street, Boston
Thursday, October 3rd Forum: Can We Talk? Dialogue and Debate in the Contemporary Academy
Register now for Thursday’s Forum 2019: Can We Talk? Dialogue and Debate in the Contemporary Academy From BU Center for the Humanities Director, Prof Susan Mizruchi: Forum 2019 will explore one of the biggest challenges facing universities today: the question of how to promote honest intellectual exchange. In seeking a topic that would serve the Boston University community […]
Join us! African American Studies Annual Welcome Reception
Celebrating our 50th Anniversary! African American Studies Annual Welcome Reception Friday, September 20, 2019 at 5:30pm in the African American Studies Building Register here on EventBrite.
The Roots & Routes of Salsa-No experience needed!
Don’t miss this performance-based 1 credit course that explores salsa music, its roots and its multiple forms. The course repertoire may include Afro-Cuban traditional and religious drumming (rumba, güiro and batá), Cuban peasant music (changüí), Puerto Rican traditional music (jíbaro, bomba, and plena), creolized Latin popular music (son, danzón, mambo, bolero, charanga, chachachá), and multiple salsa variants (salsa dura, […]
Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize-winning author dies at 88
From the Washington Post: Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist who conjured a black girl longing for blue eyes, a slave mother who kills her child to save her from bondage and other indelible characters who helped transfigure a literary canon long closed to African Americans, died Aug. 5 at a hospital in the Bronx. […]
Unmasking Racism: SPH professor, Dr. Robert Eschmann on the effects of anonymous racist comments online
Unmasking Racism: BU SPH Assistant Professor, Dr. Robert Eschmann talks about the effects of anonymous racist comments on a college website. The Internet Is Unmasking Racism. Here’s What That Means to Young People of Color.
49.3, Black Performance I: Subject and Method
This first of a two-part Special Issue on Black Performance samples diverse subjects and methodologies, ranging from theater and dance to art installation, music, literature, film, digital images, and social interaction. Edited by Stephanie Leigh Batiste, this issue positions Black performance as a site for solidifying the prescience and critical sharpness of Black creativity in […]
49.2, Black Masculinities and the Matter of Vulnerability
This special issue contributes to studies of Black masculinities by centering the matter of vulnerability. It expands concerns about vulnerability in black masculinities studies from more spectacular forms of violence to consider the interior lives of Black masculine subjects and more quotidian and privatized forms of violence and violation. The essays explore a range of […]
BU AFAM Studies supporter, George Wein gives free concert on August 1st
BU AFAM Studies Program supporter and founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, George Wein will be giving a final concert on Thursday, August 1st at Newport, Rhode Island. Go here for story. From Eventbrite: Newport Festivals Foundation Presents One More Once Concert with George Wein and Special Guest, Christian McBride. Featuring the Newport Jazz Assembly […]
African American Studies Program founder, Professor Emerita Adelaide Cromwell dies at 99
CROMWELL, Adelaide McGuinn, Ph.D., Professor Emerita of Sociology, Boston University, peacefully gave life a passing grade in hospice care on June 8, 2019. She held her final class in Brookline, Massachusetts, where she resided for 44 of her 99 years, encouraging her acolytes here, near and abroad-to improve themselves as global citizens, with a particular imperative to empower women, […]