The Department of Gender and Race Studies is excited to host UA Guest Speaker Kiese Laymon, who will give a public talk, “This Stank: Wandering Through Inter-generational Black Southern Trauma” November 12th from 3:30-5:00 pm in ten Hoor Hall room 30!
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GRS hosts Dr. Christopher Cameron
Stefanie Fishel Announced as Women in Technology Assistant Professor
The Department of Gender & Race Studies would like to welcome Stefanie Fishel, PhD as a new Assistant Professor. Her area of speciality is Women and Technology. She will be starting this post beginning in August 2015.
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AAST 302 The Black Church Course Fall 2014 Visitors
The students from AAST 302 The Black Church were visited by Rev. LC Hall, Associate Pastor of Elizabeth Baptist Church of Tuscaloosa, and Dr. Pamela Payne Foster. Dr. Foster lectured on The Black Church and the HIV AIDS Crisis.
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Dianne Pinderhughes Visit
“Presidential Leadership When the President Is African American” Dr. Dianne Pinderhughes Friday, October 17th 4:00-6:00 p.m. 125 ten Hoor Hall Dr. Pinderhughes is a member of the Department of Political Science and of the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is also a Faculty Fellow at the Kellogg Institute. She was previously a member of the Political Science faculty at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (1984-2006), and also of Dartmouth College (1975-1984). Pinderhughes served […]
Keith Gilyard
Michael Leo Owens: Racial Attitudes, Ideology, and the Restoration of Ex-Felons’ Rights in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Dr. Angela Lewis: “Conservatism in the Black Community”
On March 12th, the department of Gender and Race studies hosted professor, author, and political strategist Dr. Angela Lewis. Dr. Lewis, the author of “Conservatism in the Black Community” is a professor of political science in the Department of Government at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her research appears in the National Political Science Review, American Review of Politics, Journal of African American Studies, Polity, the International Journal of African Studies, Whose Black Politics and The Constitutionalism of American States. […]
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Black Politics in America: Voting Rights and Incarceration
Black Politics Flyer Feb 12
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