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February 12, 2021
Assistant Professor in Music - Black sound art and/or Black sound studies, Tenure Track The College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia is...
February 12, 2021
A conversation with the daughters of Harry and Julie Belafonte, Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, Bill Lynch, Al Sharpton, Malcolm X and the granddaughter of Percy...
February 11, 2021
Department of Black Studies Dissertation Fellowship UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA Each academic year, the Department of Black Studies at the University of...
February 5, 2021
Kidada and Crystal discuss what it means to study the Civil War today, as well as how their work as African American women is helping to disrupt the myth that the Civil War...
February 4, 2021
 Philip V. McHarris has been awarded a 2021 Princeton Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.   The Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellows Program is meant to...
February 2, 2021
Yale in Hollywood - Black Filmmaker Series: In Conversation with Yalie filmmakers Jonathan Kidd and Sonya Winton-Odamtten on Tuesday Feb 2nd, 11a-12p PT / 2p-3p ET. Jonathan...
January 19, 2021
Liner Notes for the Revolution (Harvard University Press) explores more than a century of music archives in an effort to examine the critics, collectors, and listeners who...
Phillip Atiba Goff, Carl I. Hovland Professor of African American Studies and Professor of Psychology, and Peter Salovey, President of Yale University and Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology
January 18, 2021
In recognition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, President Peter Salovey and Professor Phillip Atiba Goff discuss the science of racial bias, the work of the Center for Policing...
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January 15, 2021
Growing up in a predominantly white community in Illinois in the 1950s, Gerald Jaynes dreamed of racial equality in the United States long before he even knew who Martin...
Camille Owens
November 16, 2020
One of our Spring 2020 Ph.D recipients, Camille Owens, has won the American Studies Association’s top prize for the best dissertation in the field, the Gabriel Prize! The...
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November 14, 2020
A few months back, I was pulled over by a Massachusetts state trooper on a Saturday night as I turned off the highway to get gas. It was around 10 PM and dark, and the stop...