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Childhood-Related Source Materials: Library Building Project
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Hello,
I am looking for primary source materials related to childhood studies in order to build a resource library for graduate students and instructors.
My name is Emily Slomski. I am a second year graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln under the advisement of Dr. Will Thomas.
Master Thesis on 'The United States and Eurafrica Project' (1950-1960s)
Dear scholars,
As I'm currently just starting my master thesis on 'The United States and the Eurafrica Project' (1950-1960s), I'm looking for ideas about US perception of the project ( How was it documented in US publications for example ? Links/correspondences between African American intellectual and African intellectual). Thus, I was wondering if any of you would have useful recommendations for me. Thank you a lot and all the best,
Margaux Guigal
The Graduate Institute in Geneva.
The Black Child (re)Imagined
The latest post on American Childhoods is from Debbie Olson, titled "The Black Child (re)Imagined." It examines the relationship between representations of black youth in popular media and perceptions of black youth as prode to criminality.
News Items of Interest to H-AfroAm
News Items of Interest to H-AfroAm
Writing While White
Readers of H-Afro-Am may wish to know about Writing While White by Marianne Modica. The piece, the latest in H-Amstdy's series American Childhoods, looks at fiction written for young readers and the difficulties authors can experience in seeing past their own racial biases.
Scholarly Journals in Africology
I recently wrote “Scholarly Journals in Africology: An Introductory Descriptive Review” in Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies (vol.10, no.3, May 2017, www.jpanafrican.org), a descriptive review of fifty peer-reviewed journals from online content provided in relationship to Africology (i.e., African Diaspora Studies, African Studies, Africana Studies, African American Studies, Afro-American Studies, Black Studies, Pan African Studies, etc.) via their public affirmations of the journals reviewed.
Newark Rebellion - July 12-17, 1967
A few readings on the Newark Rebellion of 1967. Please join the discussion and add more:
Revolution '67 (PBS site) Revloution '67 (Film site)
1967: The Newark "Riots" - Rutgers University Libraries
Hayden, Tom. Rebellion in Newark; Official Violence and Ghetto Response. New York,: Vintage Books, 1967.
Re: Reconstruction Education
Anderson, James D. The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
Ballard, Allen B. The Education Of Black Folk: The Afro-American Struggle For Knowledge In White America. Universe, 2004.
Becker, Anja. “From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse: African American Education in Mississippi, 1862-1875. Psychology and Selfhood in the Segregated South.” Reviews in American History 39, no. 1 (March 2011): 127–133.
Bond, Horace Mann. 1935. "The Curriculum and the Negro Child". The Journal of Negro Education. 4, no. 2: 159-168.
Re: Reconstruction Education
The standard revisionist treatment is
Anderson, James D., The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
Also his articles
--------, “Northern Foundations and the Shaping of Southern Black Rural Education, 1902-1935.” History of Education Quarterly 18 (Winter 1978): 371-96.
--------, “Ex-Slaves and the Rise of Universal Education in the New South, 1860-1880,” In Education and the Rise of the New South, edited by Ronald K. Goodenow and Arthur O. White, 1-25 (1981).
Classic are
Reconstruction Education
Good Morning Scholars!
I am looking for some books that can provide me with a historiography of education (freedman's schools, etc.) during Reconstruction and the Nadir - particularly the years 1889-1915. I am presenting at a conference and would love a broader knowledge of this period. Thank you in advance for your help on this matter - books/articles are greatly appreciated!
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Passing of Vel Phillips
The news has come that Vel Phillips, iconic Milwaukee Civil Rights leader, died yesterday. She was Milwaukee's first black and first female member of the city council, first black Milwaukee County and Wisconsin judge, as well as first black Secretary of State. As alderwoman, she repeatedly offered an Open Housing ordinance, which was consistently voted down until after the federal Fair Housing Act was passed in the wake of King's assassination. She was always the most dignified of Milwaukee politicians, as well as one of our greatest leaders.
More about her life can be found here:
Call for papers/Hagley Fall Conference/Deadline May 1, 2018
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CFP: "50 Years of Black Studies 1968-2018: Intellectual Histories and Institutional Demands" -- PURDUE University -- Nov. 29 - Dec. 1, 2018
On the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the first U.S. Black Studies department at San Francisco State University, we will convene an interdisciplinary group of scholars, activists, artists, and administrators to address the past, present, and future of our field. The symposium presents an opportunity to think about the shifting intellectual priorities within Black Studies and the institutional demands facing contemporary African American Studies departments and programs.
CFP: Scholar-Activism in the 21st century conference at the British Library, London, June 22-23, 2018
CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline 25 April 2018
CONFERENCE: Scholar-Activism in the Twenty-first Century
British Library, London, 22-23 June 2018
MA in African & African American Studies at the University of Kansas
The African & African American Studies Department at the University of Kansas is currently accepting applications for its M. A. program <http://afs.ku.edu/graduate-program> Applications are due May 1 for Fall 2018 admission.
CFP: FIELD HOLLERS and FREEDOM SONGS Anthology, Volume II
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