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Identity and Culture

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Giving Voice

Exploring the role of race and culture in shaping media

As a Chicana growing up in Southern California, UMass Amherst communications expert Mari Castañeda thought critically about the injustices present in her borderland hometown—a... Read

“The Republic of Poetry”

Making the invisible visible and shedding light on the struggle for social justice

Award-winning poet, essayist, editor and translator Martín Espada (Professor of English) uses the power of poetry to give voice to the unheard. Read

Somebody’s Children

Examining adoption and reproduction politics across race, culture, and country

Adoption in all its many forms - across race and nationality - is regularly in the news as we become an increasingly global world. UMass Amherst professor Laura Briggs is... Read

From Red Sox to Red Bulls

McCormack center addresses the culture and business of sports

The Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management at UMass Amherst is internationally known for sending top-flight graduates out into the field—students come from all over the... Read

Featured Institutes and Centers

Announcements

UMass Professor Max Page Wins Rome Prize for Historic Preservation and Conservation

Doctoral Candidate Victoria Rizo Lenshyn, German and Scandinavian Studies, Awarded DAAD Grant for Dissertation Research in Germany

UMass Press Author Marla Miller, History, Wins Recognition from the National Council of Public History for Excellence in Consulting

Featured Video

Theatre Performance: Exploring South African Identity and Culture

In Pictures

Art installation of life-size silhouette figures in red and blue on brick wall
Community Spirit: UMass Design Center in Springfield

Community Spirit, created on the exterior wall of an old warehouse, is a permanent installation of the UMass Design...