Brittney Michelle Edmonds is an interdisciplinary scholar of 20th and 21st Century African American literature and culture. She researches and specializes in the study of black critical humor after 1968. Her scholarship and her courses …
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The Department of Afro-American Studies welcomes 2 new faculty members.
Mosi Adesina Ifatunji is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Afro American Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he also holds affiliations in the Department of Sociology and at the Center …
Thulani Davis Receives Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Award From The Chancellor
Congratulations! Thulani Davis received a Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Award. Through the generosity of the Vilas Trust, the Office of the Provost is able to provide the Vilas Faculty Early Investigator Awards to …
Book Reading: Simon Balto- Occupied Territory Policing Black Chicago
A Room of One’s Own is thrilled to welcome Simon Balto, author of Occupied Territory!
In Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power, a history of Chicago from 1919 to the rise and fall of Black Power in the 1960s and 1970s, Simon Balto narrates the evolution of racially repressive policing in black neighborhoods as well as how black citizen-activists challenged that repression. Balto demonstrates that punitive practices by and inadequate protection from the police were central to black Chicagoans’ lives long before the late-century “wars” on crime and drugs. By exploring the deeper origins of this toxic system, Balto reveals how modern mass incarceration, built upon racialized police practices, emerged as a fully formed machine of profoundly antiblack subjugation.
Simon Balto is assistant professor of history and African American studies at the University of Iowa.
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Calls And Responses: Teaching, Writing, and Community Schedule
Calls and Responses
A Symposium on Teaching, Writing, and Community
April 26-27
Pyle Center
UW Madison
Calls and Responses: A Symposium on Teaching, Writing, and Community
Calls and Responses: A Symposium on Teaching, Writing, and Community Held in conjunction with the retirement of Craig Werner April 26-27 Friday, 1:00 pm-9:00 pm Saturday, 8:30 am-6:00 pm Vandeberg Auditorium Pyle Center UW-Madison Free …
Thulani Davis receives a Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Award
Congratulations! Thulani Davis received a Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Award. Through the generosity of the Vilas Trust, the Office of the Provost is able to provide the Vilas Faculty Early Investigator Awards to recognize …
Longtime friend remembers fellow poet and playwright Ntozake Shange
Poet, novelist, and trailblazing playwright Ntozake Shange died this weekend in Bowie, MD., at the age of 70. She was only the second African-American woman ever to have a play on Broadway. Shange is best …
Faculty members Thulani Davis and Craig Werner Pay Tribute to Aretha Franklin
Two members of the Afro-American Studies faculty contributed to national tributes to Arethra Franklin — Thulani Davis on All Things Considered Craig Werner on NBC News, both lending their expertise on Aretha Franklin.
Michael Thornton leads students through encounters with prejudice
Michael Thornton says he got his education in the school of hard knocks (before he got his Ph.D. at University of Michigan.) Growing up in a military family, he had to pull up stakes often, …