Tips for Avoiding “Voluntourism” in Haiti Statement from the Institute of Haitian Studies on Hurricane Matthew
Cécile Accilien, Ph.D. Director of the Institute of Haitian Studies - University of Kansas
The Hazards of Concealed Firearms on Campus:
A Statement by the KU Department of African and African-American Studies
In a recent blog post published by H-Afro-Am, Julia Bernier offers thought provoking reflections on Manisha Sinha’s recent book, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition. Bernier believes that Sinha does well to highlight abolitionists’ uncompromising demands for social transformation, and that in so doing Sinha suggests links between past and present social movements.
The Slave’s Cause and Abolition’s Presence
Julia Bernier, PhD Candidate - W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Langston’s Lawrence (Hughes Birthday)
Randal Maurice Jelks, American Studies and African & African-American Studies – University of Kansas
Author of Benjamin Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography
Contextualizing the N-word Controversy at the University of Kansas
Clayton Finn, African American Studies Major, California State University-Fullerton
Campus Protests in Context -- Some Questions for 2016
Robert Greene II, Department of History, University of South Carolina
Amiri Baraka and two consequential poems from 1965
Howard Rambsy II, Black Studies Program and the Department of English - Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Author of The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry
Manchild in the Promised Land at Fifty
James Smethurst, Afro-American Studies - University of Massachusetts Amherst
