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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
March 9, Africana Studies Research Symposium. Come and see what AFST faculty are working on! 10:00-2:00pm in the Whitley Suite at Evans Library.
April 6, 2 viewings of Hustle and Flow at Educational and Media Services (EDMS in Evans Annex) Rm. 417C at 5pm and then again at 7:30pm. These viewings are in preparation for the Africana Studies Lecture by Black Artemis on April 7, 2009, with support from the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research.
April 7, in Educational and Media Services (EDMS in Evans Annex) Rm. 410 at 3:30pm. Africana Studies Lecture Series presents, Black Artemis (Sofía Quintero),writer, activist, educator, speaker and comedienne. “Determined to write edgy yet intelligent novels for women who love hip hop even when hip hop fails to love them in return,” Black Artemis is the author of three hip hop novels, Burn, Explicit Lyrics, and Picture Me Rollin’. Her lecture is tentatively titled, “Cinderella in Blackface: A Critique of Hustle and Flow," with support from the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research.
April 16, 6:00-8:00 p.m. in Rudder 601. Kathleen Cleaver will speak on "Civil Rights, Black Power, and Community Revolution." The lecture is sponsored by Africana Studies with support from the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research.
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