party like it’s 2009

happy new year. may it be better than the preceding one(s).

New title: Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy

I received this from one of my various listservs:

I wanted to alert you all to the publication of “Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy”.
Here is the website: http://www.routledgepolitics.com/books/Black-Women-Cultural-Images-and-Social-Policy-isbn9780415996785.

Summary:
Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy offers a critical analysis of the policy-making process. Jordan-Zachery demonstrates how social meanings surrounding the discourses on crime, welfare and [...]

as I’ve just come from N.O., one of my favorites cities anywhere

A new report in The Nation[1] documents what many have claimed for years–for some Black New Orleanians the threat of being killed by White vigilantes in Katrina’s aftermath became a bigger threat than the storm itself.
After the storm, White vigilantes roamed Algiers Point shooting and, according to their own accounts, killing Black men at will–with [...]

’tis the season

THIRD BIENNIAL WINTER INSTITUTE FOR BLACK STUDIES

The University of Hawai ‘i Faculty of African Descent is pleased to announce that its THIRD BIENNIAL WINTER INSTITUTE FOR BLACK STUDIES will occur January 15-16, 2009.
www.uhwibs.com
This year’s theme is “The ‘Alternative’ African Diaspora: Interdisciplinary Roundtables on Emergent, Oppositional and New Discourses in the Field.” The African Diaspora is a very diverse entity, not only [...]