Past Events
Artists in Residence
Master Class with Amadou Kane Sy and Muhsana Ali
The Senegal-based artist team, Amadou Kane Sy and Muhsana Ali, Center of Africana Studies Fall 2019 Artists in Residence, will discuss their creative process…
"AND SHE WAS LOVED": IN MEMORY OF TONI MORRISON
An open forum in memory of Toni Morrison, with time for speaking, reading, and other sharing.
Sponsored by the Kelly Writers House and the Center for Africana Studies
The Legacy of 1619
Four hundred years ago, 20–30 Africans landed at Point Comfort, Virginia, as the first enslaved Africans to arrive in the American colonies. What is the global significance of this historical event?
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Africa Lecture Series
Saheed Aderinto
The City is Beyond Human:In Search of Animals inAfrican Urban Studies
This lecture renders some theoretical and empirical overview of the place of animals in African urban studies. It argues that animals…
Africana StudiesFaculty Colloquium
Adia Benton
Adia Benton is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at Northwestern University, where she is affiliated with the Science in Human Culture Program. Her first book, HIV Exceptionalism: Development…
Africa Lecture Series
Assan Sarr
Tijaniyya in the History of Niumi (Gambia): Reflections on Jihad and Conversion
Alumni Reading Club: "A Mercy"
Margo Crawford
Join Penn Professor and Director of the Center for Africana Studies Margo Crawford for an interactive discussion of the book A Mercy by Toni Morrison. Penn alumni and…
The Hollywood Jim Crow: The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry
Maryann Erigha
In The Hollywood Jim Crow, Maryann Erigha tells the story of inequality, looking at the practices and biases that limit the production and circulation of movies directed by racial minorities.
Media in Postapartheid South Africa: Postcolonial Politics in the Age of Globalization
About the Book
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi and Dorothy Roberts
Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist. In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to…