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African-American

Race Matters in New Harvard Journal

Race Matters in New Harvard Journal   But given the diversity of Black studies programs, will the publication be inclusive enough, asks a scholar By Ronald RoachIn an academic publishing venture that seeks to honor the intellectual legacy of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, political scientist Dr. Michael Dawson and sociologist Dr. Lawrence Bobo, both of the […]

August 25, 2004

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Berkeley Opens High-Tech Lab

Berkeley Opens High-Tech Lab To Support Social Science Research BERKELEY, Calif.The University of California at Berkeley Haas School of Business has launched the XLab — which is shorthand for Experimental Social Sciences Laboratory. The XLab is a high-tech facility to help economists, political scientists and other social scientists test their theories and to determine whether […]

August 25, 2004

Faculty & Staff

A Case in Point

A Case in PointSimple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America’s Struggle for EqualityBy Richard Kluger, Vintage Books, April 2004, 865 pp., $24.00, trade paperback, 1-4000-3061-7Simple Justice is described as the definitive history of the landmark case, Brown v. Board of Education and the epic struggle for racial equality in […]

May 19, 2004

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The Scholar-Activists of Brown

The Scholar-Activists of BrownScholars reflect on the intellectual contributions to the historic desegregation case When asked by Thurgood Marshall during the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case to join a team of scholars to answer questions posed by the U.S. Supreme Court about the intent of the framers of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment, […]

May 19, 2004

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Virginia Cemetery Provides Glimpse to Slave-Trading Past

Virginia Cemetery Provides Glimpse to Slave-Trading Past LEXINGTON, Va. An historian has found a 19th-century cemetery with grave markers that have African symbols etched on their surface, a rare link to the nation’s slave-trading past. Rachel Malcolm-Woods, a James Madison University teacher, said the inscriptions, or ideograms, are from the West African Igbo culture and […]

April 7, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Scholars of Note: History

HistorySetting the Record StraightDaina Ramey BerryTitle: Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Michigan State University Education: Ph.D., U.S. History, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Afro-American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; B.A., History, University of California, Los AngelesAge: 34On a 19th-century auction block, an enslaved Black man and woman negotiate prices with potential […]

January 14, 2004

African-American

Book on British Movement to End Slavery Wins Frederick Douglass Prize

Book on British Movement to End Slavery Wins Frederick Douglass PrizeNEW YORKA major study on the British movement to end slavery is the 2003 first prize winner of the annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded by Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition. Second prize will go to an […]

November 19, 2003

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Duke University Press Books Win Hurston/Wright Award

Duke University Press Books Win Hurston/Wright AwardDURHAM, N.C.Two Duke University Press books won top honors in the 2003 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards. The authors of the nonfiction books, both of which were published under the John Hope Franklin Center imprint, were honored last month at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.First prize went to Forgotten Readers: Recovering […]

November 5, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Harvard’s New Chapter in Black Studies

Harvard’s New Chapter in Black StudiesA neglected African studies program finally gets a departmental home By Ronald RoachFrom afar, it seemed that Afro-American studies at Harvard had taken a nasty tumble when two of its best-known scholars announced their resignations in early 2002, and its venerable chairman, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., let it be […]

October 8, 2003

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Women, Violence Expert Receives National Honor

Women, Violence Expert Receives National Honor CHICAGOA University of Illinois at Chicago sociologist’s groundbreaking research on incarcerated women and the role violence plays in their lives earned her honors last month from a national organization.Dr. Beth Richie, head of African American studies at UIC, received the Bella Abzug Woman of Honor award from the Chicago […]

October 8, 2003

Sports

Young College Athletes See ‘Raceless’ World, Study Says

Young College Athletes See ‘Raceless’ World, Study SaysNASHVILLE, Tenn. A new study showing similar levels of agreement among White and Black college athletes that racial and ethnic discrimination is no longer a problem bucks more than 70 years of social science trends relating to racial perceptions of discrimination. The report, “There’s No Race on the Playing […]

August 13, 2003

Students

Expert Panels Lay Out Legal Framework for Michigan Case

Expert Panels Lay Out Legal Framework for Michigan Case WashingtonA panel of legal scholars and social science experts that have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of maintaining the University of Michigan’s affirmative action programs laid out the legal framework for allowing the continuation of race-conscious programs to reporters at a press briefing in […]

April 9, 2003