THE AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM

UPCOMING EVENTS AND ACTIVITES

This list includes events that will be hosted by diverse organizations at UDM & that AASP is delighted to co-sponsor or promote.

 

ONGOING:

 

40 YEARS AND RISING – CELEBRATING 40+ YEARS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY.  2011-2012.

Events throughout the year will be part of our celebration of more than 40 years of African American Studies at the University of Detroit Mercy. These events will culminate in a spring celebration.  

NEW! UDM African  American Studies Program - Discourse Collectives. 2011-2012.

The African American Studies Cultural Politics Discourse Collective and The Race, Gender & Class Discourse Collective.  These collectives will create Detroit-Based intellectual and cultural spaces for anybody, anywhere, of any educational background who enjoys thinking and talking about a diverse range of ideas, experiences, and cultural expressions. Together, members of the collectives will create events and activities that inspire and engage them.

 

RECENT EVENTS:

 

MIRIAM MIRANDA: HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE GARIFUNA OF HONDURAS

Wednesday, November 9, 7 pm. UDM - Life Sciences 113

 

Miriam Miranda is the General Coordinator of the National Fraternal Black Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH). She and her organization have been fighting for the rights of African-descended Garifuna people in Honduras, whose claims to the land they have lived on for generations have been threatened by corporate interests. Miriam Miranda has braved detention, tear-gas, burns and beatings by the police for the sake of her cause. (Event Hosted by James Carney Latin American Solidarity Archive (CLASA), and co-sponsored by the Hispanic American Student Association (HASA) and Gesu Peace and Justice Committee, and the African American Studies Program (AASP)

 

DR. DANIELLE L. MCGUIRE: Author of At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance

 - a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power 

Thursday, November 10, 2011, 6:00-7:30 – G. Fisk Loranger Exhibition Space @ UDM School of Architecture

 

Danielle McGuire is an award-winning author and Assistant Professor in the History Department at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. She is the recipient of the 2011 Frederick Jackson Turner Award,  the 2008 Lerner Scott Prize, & the 2006 A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize for best essay in southern women’s history.. McGuire is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians (Event hosted by UDM Women’s and Gender Studies Program and co-sponsored by the African American Studies Program (AASP).

 

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES CULTURAL POLITICS DISCOURSE COLLECTIVE AND THE RACE, GENDER & CLASS DISCOURSE COLLECTIVE1^ST PLANNING & DISCUSSION MEETING

Wednesday, November 16^th, 5pm-7pm. President’s Dining Room @ UDM  (See Description Above.)