Black Studies

To conclude our three-part National Arts & Humanities Month #NAHM video series, we talk with Leigh Raiford, associate professor of African American studies and inaugural director of the Black Studies Collaboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. Arising from the racial reckoning of the summer of 2020, the Collaboratory is a three-year effort to create opportunities for scholars, activists, and artists to “think together and dream together about what a future might look like if the affirmation of Black lives were at the center and the foundation of US society,” explains Raiford. Knowledge-sharing partnerships with local activists, artists, and organizations reaffirm the “multi-sided, multi-generational world-building and life-affirming work” that Black Studies has always engaged in, says Raiford—in a moment when that work is more urgent than ever. Sign up for #NAHM original content from the Mellon Foundation at our website http://mellon.org or subscribe to this channel. Produced by The Mellon Foundation Edited by Delahoyde Projects Images: (1) June Jordan: Photo by Louise Bernikow. Courtesy Schlesinger?Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute. (2) TIME cover featuring Titus Kaphar’s painting Analogous Colors, 2020. From TIME. ©2020 TIME USA LLC. All rights reserved. Used under license. TIME.com. (3–4) University of California, Berkeley: Photo by Elena Zhukova/UC Regents. Photo by Keegan Houser/UC Berkeley. (5) Yashua Klos, Diagram of How She Hold It All Together, 2021. Paper construction of woodblock prints and graphite on archival Japanese rice paper. Courtesy Yashua Klos. (6) Sadie Barnette, Power, 2020. Powdered graphite on paper. Courtesy Sadie Barnette and Jessica Silverman Gallery. All other images courtesy Alamy or Getty Images.

6.10.2022 #TheBlackTable w/ Dr. Greg Carr: Prof. John H. Bracey, Jr. discusses his intellectual work & its impact on the Black studies movement | S1 E17 Download the #BlackStarNetwork app on iOS, AppleTV, Android, Android TV, Roku, FireTV, SamsungTV and XBox http://www.blackstarnetwork.com #TheBlackTable and the #BlackStarNetwork are news reporting platforms covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.

October 6, 2021 https://sofheyman.org/events/the-black-studies-project-50-years-and-counting Born in the heat of struggle, the Black Studies movement in the United States looks back now at more than fifty years of curricular development and ahead to a hopeful future at least as long. This year’s Trilling Lecture examines the moment Black Studies is transformed, virtually overnight, from protest on the streets of America into a curricular object—still controversial nonetheless—that has altered the face of humanistic study in the United States. The outcome is both a cause worthy of celebration and the occasion for a cautionary tale. The Trilling Lecture will be given by Dr. Hortense Spillers. Hortense Spillers is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor, Emerita, in English at Vanderbilt University. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021 and has most recently served as the M.H. Abrams distinguished visiting professor in English at Cornell University where she taught from 1987 to 2006. Her essay collection, Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture appeared in 2003 and has been the subject of various symposiums and critiques; currently at work on two large projects, the Idea of Black Culture and the status of women in the revolutionary context of the 18th century, she has recently published work in the African-American Review, Callaloo, and The Bloomsbury Companion to Feminist Theory; in 2017, she launched the A-Line, a quarterly of progressive thought and has been a recent recipient of lifetime achievement awards from Callaloo (2016), the Caribbean Philosophical Association (2017), and the Hubbell Prize for work in American Literature from the American Literature Association of MLA (2019). She lectures widely, most recently as an international visiting fellow at the Institute for Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Justice and the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Respondents: Rich Blint is assistant professor of Literature in the Department of Literary Studies, director of the Program in Race and Ethnicity, and affiliate faculty in Gender Studies at the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School. He is co-editor of a special issue of African American Review on James Baldwin, wrote the introduction and notes for the eBook Baldwin for Our Times: Writings from James Baldwin for a Time of Sorrow and Struggle (Beacon Press), and served as Guest Critic for a special issue of The Brooklyn Rail on James Baldwin. Upcoming books include A Radical Interiority: James Baldwin and the Personified Self in Modern American Culture, and A Queer Spirit: Incidents in the Life of the Americas. He is also co-editor of the forthcoming Cambridge volume African American Literature in Transition, 1980-1990, editor of Approaches to Teaching the Works of James Baldwin, currently under preparation for the Modern Language Association, and editor-at-large for the A-Line: a journal of progressive thought. His writing has appeared in African American Review, James Baldwin Review, Anthropology Now, The Believer, McSweeney’s, and sx visualities. Professor Blint was the 2016-2017 Scholar-in-Residence in the MFA Program in Performance and Performance Studies at Pratt Institute, and a 2017-2018 Visiting Scholar at the Center for Experimental Humanities at New York University. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. Her books are Myself Must I Remake (1974), Of Grammatology (1976; translation with critical introduction of Derrida’s De la grammatologie; 2016, new 40th anniversary edition), In Other Worlds (1987), Outside in the Teaching Machine (1993), A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (1999), Other Asias (2003), An Aesthetic Education (2013), and Readings (2014). “Can the Subaltern Speak?” has become a worldwide classic. She has won the Kyoto Prize, the Padma Bhushan, and Chevalier des Arts. She has been elected to the American Association of Arts & Sciences and the British Academy. She holds twelve honorary doctorates. She is an obsessive hands-on activist for holistic humanities education, ecology, feminism.

Eric Jackson shares insights into his latest book, “An Introduction to Black Studies.” Dr. Jackson is a professor of history and director of the Black World Studies program at Northen Kentucky University. In nearly 30 years of academia, Dr. Jackson has taught classes on American and African American history, race relations, and peace studies. He has published a wide array of books, book reviews, and articles in journals around the world. “An Introduction to Black Studies,” demonstrates the need for African American studies in university curricula and public discourse. Visit Saybrook University at www.saybrook.edu. Catch up on past episodes of “UNBOUND: Saybrook Insights” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you download your favorite shows. Visit linktr.ee/saybrookinsights to learn more. #blackhistory #blackstudies #history #americanhistory #racerelations

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Black Studies and creative autoethnography offer ways for us to not only express ourselves and to be self-reflexive, but they also allow us to transform, liberate, educate, and resist oppression, ultimately helping us find ways to imagine new futures. Black studies and creative autoethnography can help us resist systems of oppression, promote healing and understanding, and offer ways for us to build connections and develop a better understanding of the world we live in. Dr. Katie Dieter is the associate director of African and African American Studies at Stanford University. Prior to this role, she was a senior lecturer at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts and was adjunct faculty at the University of the West Indies, Mona, both located in Kingston, Jamaica. With a Ph.D. and M.A. in African American and African Diaspora Studies, a M.A. in Gender Studies, and a bachelor’s degree in African and African American Studies and Studio Art , Katie’s research focuses on the ways the visual and performing arts can be used as methods of knowledge production and resistance. Katie is also an artist and includes intersectional themes in her artwork. In a recent chapter included in Fire Under My Feet: History, Race, and Agency in African Diaspora Dance, she analyzes choreography of Indiana University’s African American Dance Company using a creative auto-ethnographic approach to reimagine dance through her own paintings. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

#BlackStudies #AfricanaStudies #50th Drs. Carol Henderson, Dana Williams and Jared Ball discuss the state of Black / Africana Studies during what is the discipline’s 50th anniversary. The event was organized and hosted by Dr. Casarae L. Gibson of Syracuse University.* *April 15, 2019 Jared A. Ball is a Professor of Communication and Africana Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. and author of The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power (Palgrave, 2020, 2nd Edition Coming Spring 2023). Ball is also host of the podcast “iMiXWHATiLiKE!”, co-founder of Black Power Media which can be found at BlackPowerMedia.org, and his decades of journalism, media, writing, and political work can be found at http://www.imixwhatilike.org ____________ STAY CONNECTED TO BPM: JOIN - Click the "JOIN," Subscribe, and Like buttons! WEBSITE - https://www.blackpowermedia.org/??? TWITTER - https://twitter.com/BlackPowerMedi1??? INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/black.power.media/ FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/Blackpowermedia DISCORD - https://discord.gg/TDP9a4f5Ez

The way school lessons are presented can have a profound impact on how a student learns and how they can carry those lessons with them later in life. In New York City, students are getting a recalibration on how they learn about African American history. PIX11's James Ford has the story in "Community Closeup with Jay Dow."

The 60th Anniversary of the African Studies Department at Howard University presents the Robert J. Cummings Lecture Series. Dr. Carole Boyce Davies- "Black Consciousness, African Studies and HU" October 24th, 2013