CIT.I.ZEN.SHIP: REFLECTIONS ON RIGHTS
Department of Photography 721 Broadway, 8th Floor, New YorkOctober 4, 2018 - January 18, 2019 Department of Photography & Imaging Galleries NYU Tisch School of the Arts 721 Broadway Lobby & 8th floor Lorie Novak and Deborah Willis, Ph.D., curators Riana Gideon, assistant curator To accept one’s past — one’s history is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is […]
“Alufa Rufino, A Man of Faith and Sorcery on the Periphery of Islam.”
Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square S, New YorkJoão Reis, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil Brazil, and particularly Bahia, was arguably the destination of most African Muslims deported from West Africa to the Americas on board slave ships during the first half of the nineteenth century. They were mainly Hausas, Nupes, and Yorubas who, once in Brazil, were involved in several slave revolts. […]
ALUFA RUFINO, A MAN OF FAITH AND SORCERY ON THE PERIPHERY OF ISLAM
CLACS and the History Department at NYU will be hosting a presentation by Brazilian historian João José Reis titled “Alufa Rufino, A Man of Faith and Sorcery on the Periphery of Islam.” Brazil, and particularly Bahia, was arguably the destination of most African Muslims deported from West Africa to the Americas on board slave ships […]