IMAGES FROM THE AFRICANA WORLD
Bookend from Senegal
Trinidad J'overt Festival. Carnival reveler is playing "mud/paint" mas as a way to symbolize rebirth. Photo by Natasha Nunez.
Black female worker taking a break at the Danneman Cigar Factory in Brazil. Photo by Tanya Shields
"El Yanga." A statue of Yanga, a Muslim man from what is now known as Nigeria who negotiated with the Spanairds to establish a free black community named after him in the state of Veracruz, Mexico.
"My brother of the Diaspora, history separates us." Written on the wall of the Maison d'esclaves at Goree Island in Senegal. Photo by Sheba Kane.
Nkrumah Statue
UPCOMING EVENTS
January 30, 2008 3‑5pm in the 2nd floor Graduate Student Lounge in Blocker. A joint meeting with the Africana Studies Working Group and the Empire and After Working Group. We will be discussing Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
February 11, 2008 6:00pm at Dr. Kimberly Brown's house. A joint meeting with the Africana Studies and American Studies Working Groups. We will be discussing Adam Mansbach's novel, The Angry Black White Boy.
March 3, 2008 6:00pm, 4:00‑6:00pm in the 2nd floor Graduate Student Lounge in Blocker. A joint meeting with the Africana Studies and American Studies Working Groups. We will be discussing Sam Greenlee's book The Spook Who Sat by the Door.
February 21, 2008 3:30pm, Whitley Suite in Evans Library. Dr. Farnce Winddance Twine (Prof. of Sociology at UC‑Santa Barbara), "Hair, Habitus, and Home Cooking: The Cultural Production of Blackness." The event is co-sponsored with the Africana Studies Program and the Race and Ethnic Studies Institute.
February 28, 2008 7:00pm, Place TBA. Africana Studies Lecture Series features Dr. Carol Boyce Davies. Caribbean and Africana specialist, she is the author of Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject (Routledge 1994) and Left of Karl Marx: Claudia Jones, Black/Communist/Woman (Duke 2007). Dr. Boyce Davies is Professor of English and African-New World Studies at Florida International University. She will join the faculty of Cornell University in Fall 2008.
February 29, 2008 7:30 pm, Fallout Theatre, 144 Blocker, Daniel Alexander Johnson, Playwright/performer. Sponsored by the Performance Studies Department, the English Department Creative Writing Program and the Africana Studies Program. Lecture/demonstration ‑ "Experience Expansion: Notes from a Road Less Traveled." After the performance, Mr. Jones will do a Q&A.
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