Courtney Thorsson teaches, studies, and writes about African American literature from beginnings to present using Black feminist methods. Her new book The Sisterhood: How A Network of Black Women Writers...
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Please join our Majors along with Prof. Kinohi Nishikawa, our Director of Undergraduate Studies, as we discuss our Department's culture, curriculum, advising, and opportunities as you take the next step to your degree and career.
In conjunction with the exhibition Reciting Women: Alia Bensliman & Khalilah Sabree, join the artist Alia Bensliman for a conversation with May Kosba, postdoctoral research associate...
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The Department of African American Studies will co-organize a weekly writing group with Reena Goldtree and Shatema Threadcraft. Shatema is an Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Vanderbilt…
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Malachi McIntosh is the Barbara Pym Tutorial Fellow in English at St. Hilda’s. Prior to joining St Hilda’s, Malachi was editor and publishing director of Wasafiri, the magazine...
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This year-long seminar explores quiet, rest, imagination, and play as essential for Black aliveness. What does it mean to imagine Black culture beyond resistance...
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On April 3, 4, and 5th, 2024, the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES), formerly the Community-Based Learning Initiative (CBLI), will celebrate 25 years of the program’s life at Princeton University...
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Jason Cyrus is a curator of visual and material culture. His exhibitions use fashion and textile history to explore questions of creativity, identity, cultural exchange, and agency...
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On April 3, 4, and 5th, 2024, the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES), formerly the Community-Based Learning Initiative (CBLI), will celebrate 25 years of the program’s life at Princeton University...
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Founded by YWCA Trenton and YWCA Princeton in 2007, Stand Against Racism quickly grew to a national presence by 2010, when an additional 80 YWCA local associations across the nation participated...
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The Department of African American Studies will co-organize a weekly writing group with Reena Goldtree and Shatema Threadcraft. Shatema is an Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Vanderbilt…
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This discussion will focus on the unique challenges and policy issues impacting queer individuals, particularly queer Black people and people of color, in New Jersey...
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On April 3, 4, and 5th, 2024, the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES), formerly the Community-Based Learning Initiative (CBLI), will celebrate 25 years of the program’s life at Princeton University...
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Crystal Wilkinson, a recent fellowship recipient of the Academy of American Poets, is the award-winning author of Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts, a culinary memoir, Perfect Black, a collection of poems...
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Joy Returns Home: Dance of the African Diaspora and Traditions of Unity, is a three day workshop series featuring Princeton Alumni Terrie Ajile Axam ‘73. Centering Afro-diasporic dance traditions of unity through the cultural arts, the series features the Sympoh Urban Arts breakdancing crew, Ethiopian and Eritrean traditional styles, and Axam’s…
- Oginga Greyling LoveAffiliationMaster Drummer
- AffiliationFounder, Artistic Director. Total Dance Dancical Productions
- AffiliationProfessor of Dance, Penn State University
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Joy Returns Home: Dance of the African Diaspora and Traditions of Unity, is a three day workshop series featuring Princeton Alumni Terrie Ajile Axam ‘73. Centering Afro-diasporic dance traditions of unity through the cultural arts, the series features the Sympoh Urban Arts breakdancing crew, Ethiopian and Eritrean traditional styles, and Axam’s…
- Oginga Greyling LoveAffiliationMaster Drummer
- AffiliationFounder, Artistic Director. Total Dance Dancical Productions
- AffiliationProfessor of Dance, Penn State University
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Focusing on the relational and transnational experiences of people who identify as Black and immigrant (or descendants of immigrants) and who are living in diasporic communities in Europe and the Americas, the symposium...
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The Department of African American Studies will co-organize a weekly writing group with Reena Goldtree and Shatema Threadcraft. Shatema is an Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Vanderbilt…
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Joy Returns Home: Dance of the African Diaspora and Traditions of Unity, is a three day workshop series featuring Princeton Alumni Terrie Ajile Axam ‘73. Centering Afro-diasporic dance traditions of unity through the cultural arts, the series features the Sympoh Urban Arts breakdancing crew, Ethiopian and Eritrean traditional styles, and Axam’s…
- Oginga Greyling LoveAffiliationMaster Drummer
- AffiliationFounder, Artistic Director. Total Dance Dancical Productions
- AffiliationProfessor of Dance, Penn State University
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Join us in Morrison Hall's first-floor Gathering Space!
Take a breather and unwind with fellow students during these refreshing sessions. Don't miss out on the chance to recharge and connect. Food and beverages will be provided!
In 1972, a group of Aboriginal activists planted an umbrella in the lawn of the the Australian Parliament in Canberra proclaiming it the Aboriginal Tent Embassy...
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This year-long seminar explores quiet, rest, imagination, and play as essential for Black aliveness. What does it mean to imagine Black culture beyond resistance...
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We are more than the circumstances of our lives, and what we do matters. In We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For, one of the nation’s preeminent scholars and ...
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The Department of African American Studies will co-organize a weekly writing group with Reena Goldtree and Shatema Threadcraft. Shatema is an Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Vanderbilt…
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Join us in Morrison Hall's first-floor Gathering Space!
Take a breather and unwind with fellow students during these refreshing sessions. Don't miss out on the chance to recharge and connect. Food and beverages will be provided!
New York Times bestselling author of The History of White People and Old in Art School, presents a comprehensive new collection of essays spanning art, politics, and the legacy of racism that shapes American history as we know it...
- AffiliationEdwards Professor of American History, Emerita
- AffiliationAlexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies
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The Department of African American Studies will co-organize a weekly writing group with Reena Goldtree and Shatema Threadcraft. Shatema is an Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Vanderbilt…
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The award-winning author is joined in conversation by Lorgia García Peña to discuss Benjamin’s new, revelatory work, in which she calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future.
A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child?…
- AffiliationAlexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies
- AffiliationProfessor, Department of African American Studies & Effron Center for the Study of America
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The Book of Black Culture” is Christopher Freeburg’s current book in progress. This book tells the story of how enslaved Africans and their...
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Join us in Morrison Hall's first-floor Gathering Space!
Take a breather and unwind with fellow students during these refreshing sessions. Don't miss out on the chance to recharge and connect. Food and beverages will be provided!
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