NEWS / EVENTS
WHITE RIOTS: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF WHITE “RACE RIOTS” IN THE URBAN NORTH, 1946-1962
Wednesday, April 2, 2008; 2:30 PM
Paul Robeson Gallery
When black people rioted, the television cameras rolled. What happened when white people rioted?
Come hear Professor beryl Satter explain the difference between media coverage of white and black riots - and why this difference matters.
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH MARCH 2008
4th Annual Women's Studies Symposium:
Women Redefining the Politics of Power
Friday , March 28, 2008
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Rooms # 255, 256, 257
Paul Robeson Campus Center
Speakers:
Nia Gill (State Senator, New Jersey)
Cynthia McKinney (Former Congresswoman, Georgia)
Tanya K. Hernandez (George Washington University Law School)
Nia H. Gill has been serving in the New Jersey State Senate since 2002, where she represents the 34th Legislative District. She is the Chair of the Senate Commerce Committee. Gill is recognized as being one of the leading abortion rights advocates in New Jersey politics. She took opposition to override the then-Governor Christie Whitman's veto of the New Jersey Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1997 in the New Jersey Assembly. Gill received a B.A. in History/Political History from Upsala College and was awarded a J.D. from the Rutgers University School of Law. She is an attorney with the firm of Gill & Cohen, P.C. together with fellow Assembly member Neil M. Cohen.
Cynthia A. McKinney served as a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003, and from 2005 to 2007, representing Georgia's 4th Congressional District. She left the Democratic Party in 2007 and created an exploratory committee for a Green Party presidential campaign. McKinney is Georgia's first African-American Congresswoman and the only woman serving in the state's congressional delegation. She advocates for voting rights, human rights and the strengthening of business ties between Africa and the U.S. McKinney earned a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Southern California and is currently working to complete her dissertation in international relations at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Tanya K. Hernandez earned an A.B. in sociology from Brown and a J.D. from Yale Law School. She joined the George Washington University Law faculty in 2007, after a decade of teaching at Rutgers University Law-Newark, and St. John's University School of Law. She teaches courses on property, trusts and estates, critical race theory, and race and the law. Hernandez's scholarly interest is in the study of comparative race relations, and her work has been published in the California Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Harvard Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and many other publications.
Breakfast and Lunch will be provided.
"Through Their Eyes: Stories of the Consequences of Global Unrest and Those Who Live Through Them"
Monday, March 10th, 2008, 11:30a.m.-12:50 p.m.,
Dana Room
Natalie Jesionka is an international correspondent for South African and Korean Broadcasting stations. Over the last five years, Ms. Jesionka worked closely with United Nations and Amnesty International to promote global human rights through media and film. Her work includes reporting on human trafficking in Southeast Asia, civil uprising in Burma, and most recently, political violence in Kenya.
Currently, Ms. Jesionka is working with non-profit organizations and women's universities in Asia, to develop a curriculum focused on the challenges women encounter when reporting from high-risk zones, and the second-hand trauma journalists face when covering crisis situations.
Ms. Jesionka serves as the Executive Director of the PRIZM project, a global human rights education organization for young women ( http://www.prizmproject.org ).
This presentation commemorates International Women's Day and is sponsored by the Women's Studies Program; the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience; the Department of English; the Graduate Program in American Studies; and the Department of African-American and African Studies.
Refreshments will be provided.
ISLAM AND THE AFRICAN :
From Ethiopia to Timbuktu to America
February 18, 2008; 4:30-7:00 p.m.
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Abdullah Hakim Quick will be visiting Rutgers-Newark to discuss “Islam and the African: From Ethiopia to Timbuktu to America”, on Monday, February 18, 2008 from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m. in the Essex Room (231), which is located on the second floor of the Paul Robeson Campus Center, Rutgers University Newark.
Dr. Abdullah Hakim Quick is a graduate of the Islamic University of Madinah in Saudi Arabia and holds a Masters Degree and a Doctorate in African History from the University of Toronto in Canada. Shaykh Abdullah has contributed to the religious page of Canada’s leading newspaper for three years and is presently a senior lecturer on the history of Islam in Africa at The International Peace University South Africa in Cape Town and a member of the Muslim Judicial Council, Cape Town, South Africa. For more information, please visit www.hakimquick.com.
The introduction will be given by Michael Nash, a full-time professor in the Division of Humanities/Department of History at Essex County College and a part-time lecturer in the Department of African-American and African Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. He is also the author of Islam Among Urban Blacks: Muslims in Newark, NJ, A Social History.
This presentation is sponsored by the Department of African-American and African Studies and the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience with support from Masjid As-haabul Yameen, East Orange, NJ and Masjid Warithideen, Irvington, NJ.
Department of African-American and African Studies Faculty Search Announcement
The Department of African-American and African Studies at Rutgers University-Newark is pleased to invite applications from scholars with expertise in African-American and African diasporic studies working in all areas of the humanities and social sciences. We will consider applications from candidates appropriate for appointment at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor as well as applications from established scholars appropriate for tenured appointment at at the rank of associate or full professor. This position is for full-time appointment in the Department of African-American and African Studies.
QUEER JAMAICA
Un-Massing Media Propaganda & Social Transformation
November 5, 2007
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Esther Figueroa, a Jamaican Filmmaker, Activist & Educator will be visiting Rutgers-Newark to discuss “Queer Jamaica and Un-Massing Media Propaganda & Social Transformation”, on Monday, November 5th, from 11:30 a.m to 12:50 p.m. in the Dana Room, which is located on the fourth floor of Dana Library.
Dr. Figueroa has been an activist film-maker as well as a writer, linguist and educator, for 27 years. Born and raised in Jamaica, she has also lived and worked with Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander and Native American communities. Using a range of genres—including documentaries, television programs, feature films and web content—Figueroa’s work gives voice and face to exploited, silenced or unmarked Caribbean groups and communities. Her films Cockpit Country: Voices from Jamaica’s Heart, Jamaica For Sale, and her film-in-progress, Queer Jamaica, cover a diverse range of topics: from environmental exploitation in the heart of Jamaica’s famed runaway slave or “maroon” territory, to the presence of a vibrant gay and lesbian community in a country notorious for its homophobia.
This presentation is sponsored by the Department of African-American and African Studies, the Graduate Program in American Studies, the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience and the Women’s Studies Program.
Department of African-American and African Studies Faculty Search Announcement
The Department of African-American and African Studies at Rutgers University-Newark is pleased to invite applications from scholars with expertise in African-American and African diasporic studies working in all areas of the humanities and social sciences. We will consider applications from candidates appropriate for appointment at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor as well as applications from established scholars appropriate for tenured appointment at at the rank of associate or full professor. This position is for full-time appointment in the Department of African-American and African Studies.
The department is particularly interested in emerging and established scholars who engage in work on African Americans and African diasporic populations. The department wishes to position itself at the forefront of new scholarship that is now taking place in diaspora and immigrant studies.
Our distinguished faculty is comprised both of full and joint appointments, as well as of affiliate faculty from a range of academic departments, including English, History, Philosophy, Anthropology, Sociology, Social Work, and the Law School-Newark. In addition, the Department is linked to important research institutes at Rutgers including the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience (http://ethnicity.rutgers.edu); the Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies (http://www.cornwall.rutgers.edu); the Division of Global Affairs (http://dga.rutgers.edu), as well as the Rutgers University Center for Historical Analysis (http://rcha.rutgers.edu) and the Center for African Studies (http://ruafrica.rutgers.edu) in New Brunswick. The distinctive features of these research centers reflect the strengths of the campus and its urban setting.
While serving an undergraduate population, the department has been central to broadening Rutgers-Newark's graduate offerings in the humanities and social sciences. African-American and African Studies is part of the American Studies graduate program, which is conceived in such a way that the study of African and African diaspora peoples is central to its success. Participation of African-American and African Studies faculty in the doctoral programs in Global Affairs and Urban Systems is also encouraged.
A Ph.D. is preferred by September 1, 2008. Review of applications will begin on December 3, 2007 and will continue until the position is filled. Interested candidates should send a letter of interest, a curriculum vitae, and three letters of reference to: Professor Sterling Bland, Chair, African-American and African Studies Search Committee, Rutgers University-Newark, 175 University Avenue, 304 Conklin Hall, Newark, NJ 07102-1814.
Rutgers University is an AA/EOE and especially encourages applications from women and members of minority groups.
Voice of Our Ancestors: Dances of Africa and the African Diaspora
September 26, 2007, 7:30 p.m., Bradley Hall Theatre
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The Department will join the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience to showcase the rich panoply of African Dance in the third concert of its ethnic dance series on the Newark campus Wednesday, September 26, 2007. "Voice of Our Ancestors: Dances of Africa and the African Diaspora", a live performance by Kulu Mele African American Dance Ensemble, will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Bradley Hall Theater, which is located at 110 Warren Street.
The longest-lived African Dance company in Philadelphia, Kulu Mele (which means "voice of our ancestors") has built a repertoire that is a blend of West African ancestral tradition and African American creativity. Performances include music and dance of Nigeria, Ghana, Guinea, Senegal, Brazil, Haiti, Cuba and African America. The company of 10 dancers and drummers is under the artistic direction of Dorothy Willkie and Baba Crowder (founder and director/Drummer). The hour-long program will be followed by a reception in the theater lobby. For more information, contact Marisa Pierson at The Institute, 973-353-1871, ext. 11.
The program is made possible by the Cultural Arts Programming Fund at Rutgers-Newark, and is partially supported by a grant from Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, a program developed and funded by The Heinz Endowments; the William Penn Foundation; the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency; and The Pew Charitable Trusts; and administered by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.
Sterling Bland to chair department
June 2007
Beginning July 1, 2007, Dr. Sterling L. Bland will act as chair of the Department of African-American and African Studies. Until beginning a yearlong research sabbatical during the 2006-2007 academic year, Professor Bland served as associate dean of the Graduate School at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. He received his doctorate from New York University. His areas of research and teaching include nineteenth-century American literature; African American literature and culture; autobiography; narrative theory; theory of the novel; and jazz studies. He has published widely in the area of African American literature and culture.
| Wendell Holbrook on leave, fall 2007 June 2007
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| Congratulations class of 2007! May 2007
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A Letter to the Rutgers University community in Response to Don Imus Incident
April 10, 2007
If it were not enough for the Scarlet Knights to make it to the final four of the NCAA women's basketball tournament, they now have to contend with Don Imus's reprehensible characterization of the African American members of the team. Whom should the team turn to now? Who will serve as their power forward, taking to the basket the ideals of justice and decency that have for so long marked the image of Rutgers? Who will be their point guard, putting up a shot that will shock Mr. Imus into a realization that his words, and similar words over the course of modern history, are hurtful and despicable?
The Scarlet Knights can turn to us, the Rutgers University community writ large, diverse and caring. We salute your collective accomplishment. And we are offended by Don Imus's words, not only because they are crude, but also because his words all but get in the way of this precious moment of the University's great joy over your accomplishments, but they do not diminish your stature as one of the nation's greatest athletic ensembles.
Clement Alexander Price
Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of History
Director, Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience
The Black Church and The Urban Mosque in the History of Newark, New Jersey
April 5 , 2007
On Thursday April 5, 2007, the Department of African-American and African Studies will co-sponsor a program entitled, “The African-American Community, the Black Church and the Urban Mosque in the History of Newark, NJ" with The Division of Humanities, Student Life and Activities Office, Africana Institute and The Community College Humanities Association at Essex County College. The speakers will be Mr. Imam Wahy Deen Shareef, Senior Advisor to Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Resident Imam of Masjid Warithideen in Irvington; Professor Clement Price who has published on the African-American community in Newark; Dr. Ned Wilson who published an article on Storefront Churches in Newark after the riots/rebellion; Reverend Dr. George Blackwell III William Howard, pastor of the historic Good Neighbor Baptist Church in Newark and Mr. Michael Nash, who will serve as moderator.
This event will be held from 12:00 to 3:00 in Siegler Hall, Essex County College, 303 University Ave., Newark, NJ 07102.
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