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Dropping BLKC (Black Latinas Know Collective) Knowledge

In this interactive roundtable, members of the newly formed Black Latinas Know Collective (BLKC) will discuss the BLCK Statement (https://www.blacklatinasknow.org/) and the ways in which Black Latina scholars and their knowledge productions challenge and re-think Latinx Studies, Black Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and traditional social science and humanities disciplines. . . . . …

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Africa~Diaspora Forum: Peter Hulme

In the 1920s in New York the jazz cabaret was seen as offering what the writer Eric Walrond called “Africa undraped”, and its sound was the tom-tom.  This talk will explore the period’s fascination with that instrument and with what it might signify, focusing on two texts entitled Tom-Tom, both of which offer to associate contemporary Harlem with “Africa”, in one or another of its manifestations.

Africa~Diaspora Forum- Kenda Mutongi

Kenda Mutongi teaches a wide range of courses in African history, world history, and gender history. She is the author of two award-winning books: Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi (Chicago UP, 2017) and Worries of the Heart: Widows, Family, and Community in Kenya(Chicago UP, 2007). She has also published several articles in the major African …

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REVOLUTIONIZING THE PUBLIC MUSEUM WITH VISITING NYU BUENOS AIRES PROFESSOR FLORENCIA MALBRÁN

oin us for lunch with Dr. Malbrán, critic and curator of contemporary art, as well as co-instructor for the upcoming course Art and Politics in the City: NYC and Buenos Aires. The talk will center on Dr.Malbrán’s current research, an examination of micromuseums in Argentina, particularly the small Ingeniero White Harbor Museum. In discussing how museums …

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Institute of African American Affairs and Center for Black Visual Culture Presents: Billie Holiday: An Evening with Lady Day in Photos and Song

Born April 7, 1915, Billie Holiday is considered one of the greatest American jazz singers of all time. Author Grayson Dantzic shares behind-the scenes anecdotes and images from his 18-year journey making his book Jerry Dantzic:Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill. Through the rediscovering of his late father Jerry Dantzic’s unseen photographs of Billie Holiday taken in 1957, the …

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