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W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
The colorful charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition by famed sociologist and black rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois offered a view into the live...

Black Lives Matter and Music
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
In this collection of critical studies co-edited by Stephanie Shonekan, contributors draw from ethnographic research and personal encounters to illustrate how scholarly research of, approaches to,...

Britt Rusert Recognized by the American Studies Association
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Professor Rusert is a finalist for the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize for her first book, Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture (New York...

Teach-in held in response to recent racist incidents at UMass
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Over 200 people gathered to hear two panels...