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2 new books in our collection - on the topic of Black humour!
"Sass: Black Women's Humor & Humanity" by J Finley looks at Black women comedians' usage of sass as a subversive means to speak back to authority
#BlackStudies #AfricanAmericanStudies #AmericanStudies #MediaStudies #GenderStudies
the afro american novel and its traditionThe Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition (University of Massachusetts Press 1987)
“the definitive book in the field….an impressive work, by an impressive literary scholar.” Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University
“It sets the standard that future critics will be obliged to meet and establishes analytical terms and relationships that others will have to engage, challenge, and expand upon.” William E. Cain, American Quarterly, March 1989
“the standard study in the field…. a necessary volume for students of black fiction on all levels.” Choice, May 1988
Awards
College Language Association Creative Scholarship Award
#BlackHistory #RealBlackHistory #HometownBlackHistory #history #PennState #Notable #influential
#AfricanAmericanStudies #AfricanAfricanAmericanStudies
I had "African African American Studies" when I first came to #UniversityPark. Professor Bernard Bell.
http://wordpress.drbwbell.com/biography/
Look at that $#!T man! He was a #superstar I shit you not. The real m*ther f'n deal right there. So much respect for that guy. Loved him. He taght me a lot. I think he may have taught me how, moreover, why to be a man.
I think he knew the guy... civil disobedience at the bridge. congressman.
I've emailed him. He doesn't give a shit. He did thouh. Maybe he did hear what I said, ya know? I only told him the truth. He had a profound impact on my understanding of the #AfricanAmercian condition, but what it means to stand for something; to stand up for something and be prepared to die in doing so.
I guess I'm an asshole for never going across campuss, and living here all these years, and all these really fantastic people being just over there. And they're real people, just like you and me. He'd probably be delighted to see me. Sadly, and this is why i won't continue... ii mean, he was old when he was my professor in 1995. That's all i'm gonna say about that.
#DrBernardBell #BernardBell #BlackHistory
http://wordpress.drbwbell.com/biography/
Tremendous impact on my #integrity as a human being. I love you, Dr Bernard Bell. Thank you for teaching us.
Find this book by the Met Museum, edited by Denise Murrell, here in our catalogue & soon in our reading room at SUB Göttingen!
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1881213749
#Juneteenth #BlackCulture #BlackStudies #AfricanAmericanStudies #arthistory
Some places in the USA are trying to minimize how much African-American Studies appears on school curriculums, but not San Francisco.
@SFPublicPress reports on how a half dozen high schools in the Bay Area will offer the subject as an Advanced Placement course in the upcoming school year, and why educators are enthusiastic about this.
#SanFrancisco #AfricanAmericanStudies #Schools #Education @blackmastodon #NewstodonFriday #Newstodon
Join us in celebrating #IoFAuthor Raven Simone Maragh-Lloyd! Raven’s book Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age is available from #UCPress. It would make a great addition to reading lists in #BlackStudies #MediaStudies and #TechnologyStudies.
#NewBookAlert #AfricanAmericanStudies #DigitalStudies #BlackHistory #AmReading #CiteBlackWomen #ReadUP
2 books on the Tea Party in #AmericanPolitics, their voters and their influence on the election of Donald Trump
Kirk A. Johnson: https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1738972410
Rachel M. Blum: https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=168936470X
#PoliticalScience #AfricanAmericanStudies
#InternationalTeaDay
ICYMI, #RonDeSantis' campaign to censor the AP #AfricanAmericanStudies curriculum succeeded: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article282715468.html
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/25/us/mississippi-state-audtior-degree-funding
#Mississippi
#africanamericanstudies
Shout out to the fact this dude looks like a sputtering rage face in the crowd of a civil rights march/court case photo
My african-american studies professor wants me to change my major to History or African-American studies!! I am so soo flattered and conflicted :ablobcatheartsqueeze:
:blobfoxcofecute: Any advice? Anything that I should keep in mind while considering this decision? :blobcatthinking:
#MajorChange #ChangingMajor #Major #CompSciMajor #AfricanAmericanStudies #CollegeMajor #CollegeAdvice
#News: #Arkansas Dept of #Education has pulled a #AdvancedPlacement credit for #AfricanAmericanStudies. #Republican Gov #SarahHuckabeeSanders says "We cannot perpetuate a lie to our students & push this propaganda leftist agenda teaching our kids to hate America & hate one another."
EXCEPT that's what the #Republicans are doing!!! I wrote an essay on the #GOP #CultureWar #politics, #BlackHistory #ColorblindRacism, being #woke or #antiwoke, #DiversityandInclusion, & more
Arkansas Dept. of ‘Education’ Demands Schools Turn Over Books and Course Materials on African-American History
Not only will African-American AP classes not count for credit, the Arkansas' Department of 'Education' has doubled down and sent out a le
https://newsviews.online/2023/08/22/arkansas-dept-of-education-demands-schools-turn-over-books-and-course-materials-on-african-american-history/
#Education #AfricanAmericanStudies #APCourses #Arkansas #CRT #education #SarahHuckabeeSanders
Little Rock Nine members slam restrictions on AP African American Studies course in Arkansas
#LittleRockNine #APCourseRestrictions #AfricanAmericanStudies #Arkansas #HuckabeeSanders #Education #Politics #News
#LittleRock School Dist. in #Arkansas will continue to offer #AdvancedPlacement #AfricanAmericanStudies, over objections of Gov #SarahHuckabeeSanders’ admin, a #Republican who has limited instruction on #race.
The decision comes after the State Dept of #Education announced on Mon that the course’s content might violate a new #law banning “indoctrination” in #schools.
#Racism #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/us/little-rock-ap-african-american-studies.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Course on African
American history denied
Arkansas protests
Arkansas Education Department gives culture war excuses for dumping AP African American Studies.
https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2023/08/14/arkansas-department-of-education-gives-culture-war-excuses-for-dumping-ap-african-american-studies #Arkansas #AfricanAmericanStudies #BlackHistory #Prohibited #Education #Teachers #Schools #CultureWars
Via Judd Legum: The Arkansas Department of Education says it will not count AP African American Studies toward graduation credit and teachers/schools that continue to offer the course risk violating Arkansas law on “prohibited topics”. #Arkansas #AfricanAmericanStudies #BlackHistory #Prohibited #Education #Teachers #Schools
The #CollegeBoard, a powerful nonprofit, has been waging war w/ the administration of Gov Ron #DeSantis, a #Republican, since earlier this year when his admin rejected the College Board’s new #AfricanAmericanStudies course. The #curriculum included topics such as “#QueerStudies,” #reparations & the #BlackLivesMatter movement, & the admin objected, citing a #FloridaLaw limiting how #racism & other aspects of #history are taught in #PublicSchool.
The Guardian has published the most recent letter against the censorship of intersectionality and Black feminism in the AP African American Studies course by College Board. Please distribute and sign on!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/08/anti-woke-censorship-colleges-open-letter
#academicfreedom #litstudies #africanamericanstudies #blackstudies #advancedplacement @litstudies
"[T]he worst thing that happened to Black history during #BlackHistoryMonth was not Ron DeSantis banning critical concepts and approaches—it was the College Board revising its new #AfricanAmericanStudies curriculum to meet all of his demands. But now scholars in #BlackHistory, #BlackStudies and related fields are fighting back. #KimberléCrenshaw will explain. She founded the #AfricanAmericanPolicyForum."
#CRT #wokebashing #ChasseAuxWokes
https://www.redcircle.com/shows/f42ee235-8574-4ed7-902e-0176c818cc37
"White segregationists on the school board sprang immediately into action. They decreed that no book could be “instilled in the schools that is either klan or antiklan,” insinuating that Woodson’s Black history textbook was “antiklan."
The school board banned the book. It confiscated all copies. It punished the teachers. It forced the resignation of the school’s principal. “It’s striking how similar that feels and sounds to the contemporary moment,” the Harvard education historian Jarvis R. Givens told me."
The #AmericansofConscienceChecklist contains scripts, phone numbers, emails, links to websites to make taking direct action easy
"If you only have 10 minutes, take our top three suggested actions:
Action 4: Protect the integrity of the #AP #AfricanAmericanStudies curriculum.
House Call: Support transparency in political donations and oppose “ #DarkMoney”.
Action 3: Send a “food Valentine” this February to local #FoodBanks
https://americansofconscience.com/02-03-2023/
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Hey folks. Please have a look at this new letter to College Board by African American Studies scholars from across the country. It's a clear statement against the censored African American Studies AP course with a list of actionable demands.
#academicfreedom #litstudies #africanamericanstudies #blackstudies #advancedplacement @litstudies
After the group that administers the test criticized him, the Florida governor questioned the “need” for SAT tests in his state.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/akexpa/ron-desantis-sat
#News #RonDeSantis #SATS #ACT #Florida #advancedplacementtests #africanamericanstudies #stopwokeact #don'tsaygaybills
Guess what? The #CollegeBoard lied about watering down its AP #AfricanAmericanStudies course at the behest of the #RonDeSantis administration. Busted by @hiltzikm https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-02-13/column-college-board-lied-about-when-it-started-dickering-with-desantis-over-its-ap-black-studies-course
It’s remarkable to read the #CollegeBoard’s statement about their interactions with #Florida’s Department of #Education. Definitely read the whole thing, but here’s just one quote:
“We have made the mistake of treating FDOE with the courtesy we always accord to an education agency, but they have instead exploited this courtesy for their political agenda.”
I’m glad to see some pushback against #DeSantis.
https://allaccess.collegeboard.org/our-commitment-ap-african-american-studies-scholars-and-field
Here's a powerful way we can stand up for an inclusive and accurate vision of the African American experience in the US: call/send a quick letter to the folks who manage the US advanced placement program for high schoolers.
#blackhistory #americanhistory #africanamericanstudies
https://pdamerica.org/help-us-protect-african-american-studies/
Steve Bumbaugh from the #CollegeBoard is being interviewed by Joy Reid and he's not helping himself. #AfricanAmericanStudies
