African American Studies
Joy A. James, a distinguished scholar and author of several books about race and gender in American politics, will present a lecture Tuesday (Oct. 4) at Indiana University's Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center.
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As the new director of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, Stephanie Power-Carter hopes to continue making the center a home-away-from-home for students while helping support a tradition of academic excellence.
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Stephanie Power-Carter, new director of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, understands the importance of academic excellence and community of family and hopes to use that knowledge to continue an inviting and warm tradition at IU Bloomington.
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The subject of black masculinity and the notion of what it means to be male in a gendered, heteronormative, capitalist society have become central to the study of intersectional relations in various academic disciplines. Though a small number of books have anthologized the various possibilities of discourses concerned with the black male perspective, no journal until now has produced focused academic writing from a broad contributor pool on this topic.
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In Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South, Indiana University historian Claude A. Clegg III tells the forgotten story of a triple lynching that took place in 1906 in his North Carolina hometown.
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Indiana University announced today (Oct. 14) that renowned opera singer Angela Brown, who honed her craft at the Jacobs School of Music, has selected IU's Archives of African American Music and Culture as the repository for her collected papers and an array of items related to her career. "Being from Indiana and having graduated from IU, Angela is well-known, revered, and has a legacy in this state," said IU Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Portia Maultsby, director of the Archives of African American Music and Culture.
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