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January 31, 2023Historicizing Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions in Cuba
The Race and Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI) invites you to attend our upcoming colloquia on Wednesday, February 8 at 12 PM CDT in Rudder Tower 707, featuring Dr. Takkara Brunson. Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University. Brunson’s research focuses on the political and cultural traditions of the African Diaspora, with emphasis on how […]
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January 20, 2023Reparations Reconsidered
The Race and Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI) invites you to attend our upcoming colloquia on Thursday, February 23 at 2 PM CDT, featuring Dr. Rinaldo Walcott, Carl V. Granger Chair in African American Studies, from the University of Buffalo (SUNY). Dr. Walcott’s teaching and research are in the area of Black diaspora cultural studies and […]
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October 19, 2021Adaptive Liminality: Land Stewardship
A growing body of scholarship advances the validity of vernacular African American placemaking and architecture as a by-product of protest, cultural expression, and international design. Dr. Robers shares lessons from recorded practices among members of the freedom colony diaspora.
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July 28, 2021
Free Boy: A True Story of Slave and Master
In 2013, Lorraine McConaghy and Judy Bentley published FREE BOY: A True Story of Slave and Master (Seattle: University of Washington Press). FREE BOY explores the decision of slave Charles Mitchell to flee his master James Tilton, on September 24, 1860, following a tiny Puget Sound Underground Railroad. FREE BOY follows the twined biographies of […]
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Up from slavery: An autobiography by Booker Taliaferro Washington
Complete online text of novel, “Up from slavery: An autobiography” by Booker T. Washington. Original copyright expired. Each chapter is transcribed and online as text pages.
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Elbert Williams: First to Die
Before the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman & Mickey Schwerner in 1964; Medgar Evers in 1963; or Harry T. Moore in 1951, Elbert Williams on June 20, 1940, in Brownsville, Tennessee, became the first known NAACP official murdered because of his civil rights activity. Read about this historic incident.
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July 26, 2021
Freedom Narratives: Testimonies of West Africans from the Era of Slavery
Testimonies of West Africans from the Era of Slavery. York University. Searchable. https://freedomnarratives.org/
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The Making of African American Identity, Vol I 1500-1865
Primary Resources thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. National Humanities Center Toolbox Library. http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/index.htm
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The Making of African American Identity, Volume II, 1865-1917
Primary Resources thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. National Humanities Center Toolbox Library. http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai2/index.htm
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April 19, 2021In Retrospect and Prospect: Monuments, Iconography, & the Black Freedom Struggle
In a provocative and eye opening talk, on April 20, from 2-3:30 pm, Dr. Lionel Kimble will explore the visual narratives that have been impacting the Black Freedom Struggle.