Newsletter for March 26, 2018
GLC News and EventsTONIGHTAn Outrage: A Documentary Film about Lynching in the American South Special Yale screening with filmmakers in attendance Monday, March 26, 6:00 to 7:30pm Afro-American Cultural Center 211 Park Street, New Haven, CT 06511
GLC Brown Bag Lecture: 'Liberated Africans', Indenture, and Resistance in the British Caribbean 1807-1828 Anita Rupprecht, Senior Lecturer, University of Brighton, UK, and GLC Visiting Fellow Monday, March 26, 2018 • 12:00pm 230 Prospect Street, Room 101
A Panel Discussion marking the Yale Repertory Theatre’s production of Suzan-Lori Parks’s Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
 Thursday, March 29, 2018 • 5:00 to 7:00pm Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Rm 102 63 High Street, New Haven, Connecticut
Introduction: David W. Blight, Yale University
Moderator: Daphne A. Brooks, Yale University
Panelists:
- Tera W. Hunter, Princeton University
- Branden Jacobs-Henkins, playwright
- Michael LeMahieu Clemson University
- Harvey Young, Boston University
Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Yale Repertory Theatre
Slavery and Its Legacies: Jessica Pliley and Zoe Trodd on trafficking and sex work
A conversation with Jessica Pliley and Zoe Trodd, members of the Gilder Lehrman Center's Modern Slavery Working Group, on trafficking and sex work.
20th Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize: Request for SubmissionsThe Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History are pleased to announce the twentieth annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, an annual award for the most outstanding non-fiction book in English copyrighted in the year 2017 on the subject of slavery, resistance, and/or abolition. The submission deadline is March 31, 2018.For detailed submission information, please contact the Gilder Lehrman Center at: gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu
Other Events
Monica Muñoz Martinez
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 • 4:00 pm
William L. Harkness Hall, Rm 116, Yale University
Monica Muñoz Martinez will discuss her digital research project Mapping Violence, which uses digital tools to recover and make visible lost and obscured histories of racial violence in Texas from 1900 to 1930. More information
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University
53 Wall St., Rm 208, New Haven
Monday, April 2, 2018 • 9:00am to 7:00pm
Keynotes:
Timothy Snyder, The Politics of Guilt and Innocence
Marci Shore, Is Innocence Possible? The Search for a Safe Space
More information...
The Intersections of Class and Race: Imagining an Ethnography of the Reproductive Lives of Class-Privileged Women of Color
Khiara Bridges, Professor of Law, Professor of Anthropology at Boston University
Monday, April 2 • 12:10-1:30 pm
Yale Law School, Room 121
Non-Pizza Lunch Provided
Legal scholar and anthropologist Khiara Bridges will draw from her previous and upcoming work to discuss how experiences of class and race interact with and alter one another in the context of reproduction and pregnancy among middle- and upper-class Black and Latina women in the United States.
Lecture, Drawing “The Color Line”: The Art of Ollie Harrington
Richard J. Powell, Duke University
Thursday, April 26, 2018 • 5:30pm
Yale University Art Gallery See map
1111 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT 06510
Gallery at BRIC House
647 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY
March 15 - April 29, 2018
Bordering the Imaginary: Art from the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and their Diasporas investigates the complicated relationship between the Dominican Republic and Haiti—two nations that share a single island. The exhibition features work in a wide array of media by 19 Dominican and Haitian artists, based in both their native countries and in the United States
In the News
 As a graduate seminar, “Black Womanhood,” a new course team-taught by two professors at the Johns Hopkins University this semester, is designed to be intimate. But the professors, Martha S. Jones and Jessica Marie Johnson, also wanted to widely share the readings they’d curated on a topic they are passionate about. Johnson posted a version of the syllabus — just the readings, not the assignments — on her blog, Diaspora Hypertext. Unlike the conventional policy-heavy document, the public syllabus for “Black Womanhood” was designed to be eye-catching, with lots of images meant to draw readers in. It set out a schedule of readings to keep up with — one week's are about the trans-Atlantic slave trade, while another's cover black marriage. “Feel free to tweet at us (@jmjafrx and @marthasjones_) if you decide to read alongside us,” wrote Johnson, an assistant professor of history and Africana studies. “We would love to hear from you.” The move has paid off. Within days of the syllabus being posted, some commenters suggested readings to add. A week or two later, Jones was approached by a graduate student after she gave a talk at Yale. “We’re reading your syllabus,” the student told Jones, a professor of history, who previously taught a version of the course to undergraduates at the University of Michigan. Since then, the syllabus has spread beyond academe. It’s been shared on Twitter, mentioned on blogs, and taken up by political organizers, one of whom used it as the basis for a free online class open to anyone. Some professors who teach less-specialized courses have used the syllabus to locate new scholarship — and scholars, Johnson said. Many of the readings, she notes, were written by black women. Some people outside of higher education have expressed surprise that such a course exists at all. Some said they wish the subject had been taught in grade school. Successfully reaching a broader audience, Jones said, is “powerful stuff.” continue...
DARROW — The unmarked graves of as many as 1,000 slaves who toiled in the agricultural fields of two Ascension Parish plantations were uncovered five years ago by an archaeologist working for the Shell Convent refinery, a finding that one state expert said is among the largest unknown burial grounds discovered in Louisiana.
Now, the company is moving forward with a plan to remember those enslaved people, working with the River Road African American Museum to mark the two cemeteries and allow descendants onto the property to pay their respects.
"I always knew there were cemeteries out there somewhere," said Kathe Hambrick, founder of the River Road African American Museum in Donaldsonville. "Having the plantation map in the museum and understanding there were as many as 100 plantations in Ascension Parish, I've always wondered, 'Where were all those cemeteries for all those plantations?' It has been brought to my attention that many of these cemeteries are now on property owned by industry."
The Shell Convent Refinery is set to host a memorial service and marker dedication on March 24 for enslaved people buried in the Bruslie and Monroe plantations located to the northwest of the plant. Historical records show there were at least two more plantations on the more than 4,000 acres of property Shell owns in Ascension.
March 24, 2018, Watch the Yard
Tiffany Loftin, the new Director for the NAACP Youth and College department showed up today at the March For Our Lives Rally and let everyone know what time it is when it comes to confronting gun violence issues in America.
During an interview on the street that was posted by The Crisis, Loftin passionately opened up about why the march is important to the NAACP and why she brought over 1,000 students from all across the country to participate.
“When we talk about legislative issues and solutions for gun violence, it has to include the intersections of black violence. That means guns, that means gangs, that means schools, that means teachers, that means police brutality, that means state violence, it has to include all of that stuff or were not gonna be able to do all of this stuff together,” she stated.
“This is not just about white people and school shootings in the classroom.”
“They kill us in churches, they kill us on the streets, they kill us in the car, they kill us the we are traveling, and they kill us in our classrooms.”
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Announcements
African American Civil War Soldiers
African American Civil War Soldiers Project would like to announce the launch of a new crowd-sourcing transcription project, African American Civil War Soldiers. They are building a comprehensive database of the estimated 200,000 soldiers who fought for their freedom in the American Civil War and are currently transcribing the soldiers military records and hope to later include the pension records of surviving veterans. The transcription will be crowd-sourced, meaning that any member of the public can get involved. The site works as a teaching aid, allowing students to explore primary documents many of which have never before been studied and to contribute directly to their preservation and study. More Information
The Harriet Tubman Institute at York University and the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University (NYU) present the 9th Annual Summer Institute: “New Geographies: Africa and African Diasporas.”
We encourage papers from a wide range of academic disciplines and methodological backgrounds related to the diverse ways peoples of African diasporas have built social institutions, transformed societies, pioneered forms of communication and forged ritual practices.
The deadline for application is Monday, April 30, 2018.
Join us for a major symposium on the history of American universities and the legacies of slavery, which provides an occasion to reflect on the meaning of monuments, racism, white supremacy, the history of the South, and their meaning for the present. It is convening some of the nation’s leading scholars of history, law, economics, art history, and sociology whose voices have been central to the current debate.
This event is open to the public, and students are especially encouraged to attend. Advance registration is not required.
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