The inaugural event of the Pembroke Center Publics Initiative and Lecture Series will feature Alexis Pauline Gumbs, who describes herself as a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist. Gumbs is a writer whose feministRead More

Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial group in the United States today, and Asian American youth overall are outperforming their white peers academically. In this talk, Warikoo brings us into an upper-middle-class suburb in which these trends make their way into the local high school. She describes how many white parents attempt to protect their children’s status by calling forRead More

Domingo Morel discusses his forthcoming book about community-centered affirmative action, the role of protest in policy formation, and how institutions of higher education have adopted new policies to restrict college access to students of underrepresented groups.Read More

Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and headquartered at the University of Michigan’s Center for Social Solutions, the Crafting Democratic Futures project brings together nine university partners, each tasked with leading a local effort to devise a racial reparations plan for their area. This talk will lay out the project in Newark, New Jersey, where Rutgers faculty, staff, andRead More

The HIAA department has decided, out of an abundance of caution, and to protect against seasonal flu, colds and COVID-19, we will continue to require masks for all indoor lectures and gatherings during Spring 2022. 

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Mpho Matsipa, University of the Witwatersrand & Harvard Graduate School of Design 

Black people are often forced toRead More

This event is part of the Sociology Department’s Spring Colloquium Series.

Joseph Ewoodzie Jr: Getting Something to Eat in Jackson

Joseph Ewoodzie Jr. spent more than a year following a group of socioeconomically diverse African Americans—from upper-middle-class patrons of the city’s fine-diningRead More

The Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women presents the Annual Elizabeth Munves Sherman ’77, P’06, P’09 Lecture in Gender and Sexuality Studies featuring Elena Shih, Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies at Brown University.

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Join CMES on Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 1:30-3:00 p.m. for this panel with Ruba Salih, Miriyam Aouragh, and Loubna Qutami. On October 12th 2016, Sky Bird Black Owl gave birth to Mni Wiconi (water is life), at Standing Rock, in the camp erected to protest against the Dakota access pipeline project, considered to violate Indigenous sovereignty and to endangerRead More