A Letter to our Senior Concentrators
The Africana Studies senior faculty send our class of 2014 graduates off with some food for thought. letter to 2014 graduates… Continue reading »
The Africana Studies senior faculty send our class of 2014 graduates off with some food for thought. letter to 2014 graduates… Continue reading »
Author Aminatta Forna is currently a Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, but Africana Studies is proud to consider her part of the Williams Community as a two-time Sterling Brown Distinguished Visiting Professor, once in Fall 2011 and again in Fall 2013. This weekend… Continue reading »
The BSU will be kicking off Black History Month 2014 with a panel of professors exploring the implications of the black body. Each professor will be offering a unique perspective on how the black body is imagined and perceived in his/her respective field. Come join the dialogue on Friday, February… Continue reading »
Africana Studies is proud to announce that Prof. Rhon Manigault-Bryant and Prof. Neil Roberts have recently been awarded tenure at Williams College (Jan. 2014). Along with… Continue reading »
Africana’s Rhon Manigault-Bryant will be one of six faculty featured at the upcoming Williams TEDx, an independent TED event on Saturday, January 25th. Her talk, #dangerousbodies #blackwomen #scifi, interrogates negative representations of black women’s bodies in popular media, and raises questions about the effectiveness of science fiction for combatting… Continue reading »
Now – Thursday, April 10 at 4:15 pm Thompson Chemistry, Wege Auditorium 47 Lab Campus Dr, Williamstown, MA 01267 Ngonidzashe Munemo, Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair, International Studies Program, will give the first lecture of this year’s Faculty Lecture Series: “Elite Games, Institutional Choice, and Stability in… Continue reading »
Jallica Jolly ’14, Prof. Singham, and Vero Igance ’15, are here pictured with Dr. Serge Pierre-Louis and Dr. Paul Farmer. Jallica Jolly ’14, Prof. Singham, and Vero Igance ’15, are here pictured (right) with Dr. Serge Pierre-Louis and Dr. Paul Farmer after Prof. Singham’s panel on Lessons from the ground:… Continue reading »
Beyond the debate over whether America really is Post-Racial, there is emerging an understanding of the limits of “racial discrimination” as framed by the Supreme Court. Recent research has examined different forms of racial subordination, such as racialized foreignness, a permanent immigrant trope, racial performance, and racial profiling. These… Continue reading »
On November 2nd at 8 p.m. the Berkshire Symphony, under the direction of Ronald L. Feldman, will premiere “Every Day Blues”, Andy Jaffe’s 20 minute orchestral tribute to the late Dr. Ernest Brown. Andy Jaffe, Lyell B. Clay Artist-in-Residence in Jazz and Director of Jazz Performance, is a… Continue reading »