December 2010
12 posts
A Historian's Code (1)
1. I will footnote (or endnote) all my sources (none of this MLA or social science parenthetical business). 2. If I do not reference my sources accurately, I will surely perish in the fires of various real or metaphorical infernal regions and I will completely deserve it. I have been warned. 3. I will respect the hard-won historical gains of those historians in whose steps I walk and will share...
African and Africanist Archaeologists Voice Their...
By Flordeliz T. Bugarin
President Sidney A. Ribeau is in the middle of deliberations regarding the future of anthropology at Howard University. After announcing on September 23, 2010 that he is considering closing the undergraduate majors in anthropology and African studies, among other majors and programs, he set aside a period of discussion and requested responses and suggestions from students...
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Watch“Sons of the Confederacy” (Jon Stewart, Daily Show)
Thoughts?
NEWS: NAACP Protests "Secession Gala" →
NAACP State President Lonnie Randolph said Friday that the state should not celebrate its history of slavery and encouraged participation in a protest of the South Carolina Secession Gala in Charleston.
He issued a call for unity, noting that today is United Nations Human Rights Day.
“Equality, justice and fairness aren’t the order of the day. And that’s what we’re...
CFP: Crossroads I: The New African Diasporas in...
CALL FOR PAPERS* *The Ninth Africana Studies Symposium at UNC Charlotte* *CROSSROADS I: THE NEW AFRICAN DIASPORAS IN THE US* *April 14-15, 2011* *University of North Carolina at Charlotte* Since 2002, the Africana Studies Department at UNC Charlotte has organized an annual symposium to examine a critical theme in the African Diaspora Studies. The 2011 symposium titled “Crossroads I: The New...
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CFP: 1st Annual Conference on Caribbean Women...
Call for Papers Abstract/Proposals by 15 January 2011 TheDepartments of Foreign Languages and English and The Center for WomenDevelopment at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York inviteparticipants for the 1st Annual Conference on Caribbean WomenWriters, “Transforming Silence: Memory,Remembrance, and Resistance in the Narratives of Caribbean Women Writers”to be held on...
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Secession Defended on Civil War Anniversary (NYT) →
In addition, the Sons of Confederate Veterans and some of its local chapters are preparing various television commercials that they hope to show next year. “All we wanted was to be left alone to govern ourselves,” says one ad from the group’s Georgia Division.
That some — even now — are honoring secession, with barely a nod to the role of slavery, underscores how divisive a topic the war...
