Not JUST data
Ruha Benjamin, associate professor of African American studies, created the Ida B. Wells JUST Data Lab to explore how data are misinterpreted or intentionally twisted through stories and narratives. Continue Reading →
Category: African American Studies
Deemed unfit for freedom
Weisenfeld’s research tracks the rise in psychiatry as a field of science and the parallel ascent of the discipline’s racialized theories about African American religious practices and mental health. Continue Reading →
BREATHE: A Letter to My Sons
Perry issues an unflinching challenge to society to see black children as deserving of humanity. Continue Reading →
Tera Hunter earns awards for scholarship on slave marriage
By Denise Valenti Tera Hunter, the Edwards Professor of American History and a professor of history and African American studies, received three prizes for her 2017 book, Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage Continue Reading →
Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground
Author: Kinohi Nishikawa, assistant professor of English and African American studies Publisher: University of Chicago Press, November 2018 The uncontested center of the black pulp fiction universe for more than four decades was Los Angeles Continue Reading →
Bound in wedlock: Professor of history explores slavery’s shackles on black families
For her new book, Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (Harvard University Press, 2017), Tera Hunter, a professor of history and African American studies, meticulously researched court records, legal Continue Reading →
Race for profits
Research on the 1970s urban housing crisis exposes a familiar history By Catherine Zandonella PREDATORY LENDERS. Subprime and no-doc loans. Mortgage-backed securities. Mass foreclosures that disproportionately impacted minority homeowners. Sound like 2008? It was 1972. Continue Reading →
Unconscious bias: Research helps break down barriers
STACEY SINCLAIR WAS AWARE OF INEQUALITY AT A YOUNG AGE. ”On some level I was always interested in injustice,” said Sinclair, an associate professor of psychology and African American studies. “As a 7-year-old, I wanted Continue Reading →