Past Events
Dreadlocks Story
Director Linda Aïnouche
About the Film
DREADLOCKS STORY is a historical page which exhibits the bonds of survival of African and Indian culture in Jamaica in view of up-front anti-slavery and anti-imperialist…
The Real Record on Racial Attitudes
Dr. Camille Z. Charles
Dr. Camille Z. Charles
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences; Professor of Sociology, Africana Studies, and Education; Director, Center for Africana Studies
Up Against a Wall: Muslim Women’s Struggle to Reclaim Masjid Space in Trinidad and Tobago
Rhoda Reddock
Rhoda Reddock is professor of Gender, Social Change and Development and former deputy campus principal of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus. For many years she served as head of the Centre for…
For an Authentic Racial Democracy!
Amilcar Pereira
The Brazilian Black Movement's Struggles in Schools and Curricula
by Amilcar Pereira, Associate Professor of the School of Education, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ - Federal…
Beyond Expectations: Second-Generation Nigerians in the United States and Britain
Onoso Imoagene
In Beyond Expectations, Onoso Imoagene delves into the multifaceted identities of second-generation Nigerian adults in the United States and Britain. She argues that they conceive of an alternative notion of "black"…
Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility
Ashon T. Crawley
In author Ashon Crawley's own words:
Female Empowerment for Global Social Change: A Panel Discussion
Kiera Kenney graduated from the School of Social Policy and Practice with her MSW in 2013. She is Manager of Health and Social Services at the African Family Health Organization in Philadelphia, where she works with…
Identity & the 2016 U.S. Election
This program will gather a panel of scholars who will engage the Penn community in conversation around: a) the role of identity in shaping the 2016 US presidential election and b) how we might expect issues of…