Past Events
Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Memorial Lecture
The Magician's Serpent: Race and the Tragedy of American Democracy
Dr. Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
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The Urgent Matter of Black Lives
In these times of widespread recognition of racial injustice, The Urgent Matter of Black Lives panel will examine the urgent work that must be done in order to fight systemic racism. Penn Africana Studies faculty…
Penn Alumni Reading Club
ft. Herman Beavers
Join Penn Professor Herman Beavers for an interactive online discussion of James Baldwin’s essay collection, The Fire Next Time. Professor Beavers has a joint appointment in the Department of Africana…
Penn Sociology Colloquium Series
CO-SPONSORED EVENT
Adia Harvey Wingfield
Adia Harvey Wingfield
Professor of Sociology, Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Arts & Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
The Bluest Eye at 50: Reading Toni Morrison in the Age of Trump
CO-SPONSORED EVENT
Herman Beavers
2020 is a moment when we find an increased awareness of systemic racism and police brutality growing across demographic lines during the Presidency of Donald J. Trump, whose race baiting and divisiveness has sought…
Africana Studies Presents
“The Toponym of ‘Good Governance’: Racialization and Street (Re)naming in Post-Apartheid South Africa”
Wale Adebanwi
Wale Adebanwi is the Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at the African Studies Centre and Fellow of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. He is also an associate member of the Oxford Department…
Africana Studies Presents
"Landing in the Familiar": Occupation and Belonging in Urban Brazil
Keisha-Khan Y. Perry
Join us for Africana Studies Presents featuring Keisha-Khan Y. Perry. The title of the talk is "Landing in the Familiar": Occupation and Belonging in Urban Brazil.
Center for Africana Studies Faculty Research Colloquium
ft. Guthrie Ramsey and Shana Redmond
Join Penn’s Guthrie Ramsey, Jr., Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music, in conversation with Shana Redmond, Professor of Musicology and African American Studies at the University of California, Los…
Africana Studies Presents
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Join us for Africana Studies Presents featuring Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. The title of the talk is Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Blackness in the Middle East
Join the Middle East Center of the University of Pennsylvania for an important conversation on blackness in the Middle East. Panelists will address themes including the greater history of blackness in the region,…