Description In what spaces and places can poor Black women’s work be economically and socially valued? Is scavenging labor? Can Black women’s care and ingenuity transform discarded items? And what does it mean to depict these issues in the context of an emerging Black Modernity of the Harlem Rennaissance? In this Work-in-Progress style presentation, Professor Erica Richardson (English, […]
How can we understand marronage beyond juridical, anthropological, or historical limitations? If our present moment is constituted by the “afterlives of slavery”, or “las huellas de la esclavitud,” and historically slavery and marronage were two inextricable processes, how can we think about marronage expansively? Relatedly, how can we understand Blackness and Black life beyond […]
On February 16, 2022, at 6:00pm on Zoom, join the Black Studies Colloquium in a presentation workshop of the scholarship of Professor Hector R. Cordero-Guzman (Marxe) on “Racial Imaginaries, Classification Schemas, and Place in Puerto Rico and among Puerto Ricans in the Continental USA.” Professor Cordero-Guzman’s work critiques the controversial New York Times piece, […]
The Black Studies Colloquium is pleased to announce a special public-facing research and pedagogy series Spring 2022, Black Futures: Black Studies Black Ecologies and African Diaspora. With the generous support of the Baruch Provost Faculty Innovativation Seed Grant, the Black studies colloquium will host a series of research and creative inquiry-based events focusing on conversations […]
Join the Baruch Black Studies Colloquium Dec 2, 2021 to learn more about the implications of recent historic and trailblazing elections with Professor Evelyn Simien, Department of Political Science, (University of Connecticut). Professor Simien will be discussing her recent publication as well as previous work on the symbolic political empowerment followed by a live Zoom […]
Professor Tshombe Miles in the Black and Latino Studies Department at Baruch College will present his work on the Black Radical Tradition using examples from maroon communities to the Haitian Revolution. The talk will focus on the question of how these communities created spaces of economic development in the face of racial capitalism despite the […]
We invite faculty and staff to join us for end-of-year digital drinks, music, and good vibes as we reflect on and celebrate the first year of the Black Studies Colloquium. Register Here: https://baruch.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYucu2urz8qGNTcYv4eCkVFeXW4rXSVWmBK
Greeting Faculty and Staff! On April 20 at 6:00 pm the Black Studies Colloquium will delve into a conversation about Black Studies focusing on the work of our esteemed colleague Zachariah Mampilly. In this round table discussion, we will consider a diasporic framing of Black Studies. This conversation will build from a section (pp. 25-34) […]
The Black Studies Colloquium (BSC) invites faculty and staff to a Community Event and Happy Hour to provide space for interdisciplinary discussion and idea generation related to Black Studies scholarship at Baruch College. At this event, we aim to create connections and consider future events, including but not limited to writing workshops, reading series, […]
The Black Studies Colloquium (BSC) and the Black and Latino Studies (BLS) Department at Baruch College will host a talk entitled “Black and Indigenous Resistance to Racist Backlash Across the Americas” by Juliet Hooker, an agenda-setting scholar-activist of Blackness, Indigeneity, and gender in the Americas. This talk will discuss the findings of Black and Indigenous Resistance […]
