Africana Studies – Bowdoin College
Africana Studies
The Africana Studies Department at Bowdoin College seeks applications for a tenure track appointment with an interdisciplinary focus in African American and African Diasporic traditions, starting Fall 2009. We invite applicants who relate their research and teaching to intellectual, philosophical and artistic themes in the humanistic disciplines. While we welcome applications from candidates [...]
Um…
Now, I like Erin Aubry Kaplan’s writing, and am far more excited about the image of Michelle Obama and her daughters than I am about her husband’s politics, and, of course, I study the image of black women and in particular their bodies, but when I saw this Salon headline today I thought, really, Erin? [...]
Did any New Yorkers see this?
Published on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 by The Guardian/UK
Pranksters Distribute Fake New York Times Declaring ‘Iraq War Over’
The Yes Men identified as the team behind the joke pages
by Ed Pilkington
The US defence department yesterday declared the end of the Iraq war and the immediate withdrawal of all troops, prompting an admission from Condoleezza Rice [...]
Oh, to be in Philly
Dear Friends,
Get ready.
PHILADELPHIA, PA:
AMERICA BOOK SIGNING
NOVEMBER 29, 2008
8PM-11PM
Quaker City String Band Clubhouse (2nd Floor)
1943 South 3rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19148
(Between Mifflin and McKean and directly across from Furness High School…the block magically turns from 2nd St into 3rd St on the block between Mifflin and McKean so just note that if you are taking 2nd St [...]
Kwame Anthony Appiah in conversation with Lyle Ashton Harris
Please join us for an exciting event in celebration of Blow Up, Lyle Ashton Harris’s retrospective monograph recently published by Gregory R. Miller & Co.
Kwame Anthony Appiah in conversation with Lyle Ashton Harris
Tuesday, November 18, 7pm
Department of Art and Art Professions
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, New York University
Einstein Auditorium
34 Stuyvesant Street, Ground [...]
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- Taking a Break February 7, 2012Site visitors will probably notice that I haven’t updated here frequently. I am taking a break from my site(s) for at least the summer. I’ve been working in this field for 25 years and I’m burned out on photography and art, the site(s) are in need of major updates/ revamping/ retooling, social media is exhausting, [...] […]
- A New Mission for Aperture? February 7, 2012[…]
- Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 7, 2012Danielle was briefly a contributor to this site; I am very excited to hear about her latest venture, the collective and now journal Mambu Badu “that seek to find, expose, and nurture emerging female photographers of African descent.”  Congrats, Danielle! As you may (or may not) know, last fall, I co-founded Mambu Badu, a photography collective […]