“In the Life: Black Women and Serial Murder” by Terrion Williamson

Williamson is an Assistant Professor of African American Literature and Cultural Studies at Michigan State University.  Her research interests include critical black cultural studies and critical race theory, black feminist theory, femicide and gendered violence, legal constructions of deviance and outlawry. She is currently working on a manuscript culled from her dissertation project entitled Scandalize […]

“Transcultural Performance Disciplines: Embodying AfroAsia Through Martial Arts in Theater, Film and Everyday Practice” by Zachary Price

Zachary Price is the Bunche Assistant Researcher on the Race & Hollywood/Hollywood Advancement Project.  His work looks at performance as a strategy for political survival and transformation.  Dr. Price has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in Theater and Dance, an M.F.A. in Playwriting from the New School University, a B.S. in […]

“Feminism and Abolition: Extending the Dialogue” by Angela Y. Davis

Critically acclaimed author, activist, and intellectual Angela Y. Davis is this year's UC Regents Professor and Professor of History of Consciousness, an interdisciplinary PhD program, and Professor of Feminist Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz.  The event is sponsored by the Gender Studies Department and will be held at 5:30pm in Royce Hall.

Unequal Ground: Race and Social Inequality in America Today

A Faculty Discussion Featuring: Leah Boustan, Sarah Haley, Keith Camacho, Kelly Lytle Hernandez and Peter James Hudson Moderated by Cheryl I. Harris For articles by the panelists please click on the titles below. "Was Postwar Suburbanization "White Flight"? Evidence From the Black Migration by Leah Boustan "Who Killed Robert McCulloch's Father?" by Peter James Hudson […]

Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Workshop with Christopher Lebron

Chris Lebron (Assistant Professor Philosophy & African American Studies, Yale University) is the author of The Color of Our Shame: Race and Justice in Our Time. The book received the American Political Science Foundation Award for Best First Book in Political Theory. He will be workshopping his paper, "The Sense and Sensibility of Equality." This is […]