Bayeté Ross Smith, photographer, artist, and education worker, will discuss his work, now on view in the show “Who Governs” at Artspace in New Haven, where it is in conversation with digitized images of materials from Beinecke Library collections.
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Official narratives of the origins of China’s economic transformation have focused on elite politics, state policies, and the leading role of rural China. As the narrative goes, China’s transition from Mao to Market was shaped by the interaction between the top-down policies of the Deng Xiaoping faction, the agency of local reformers, and rural entrepreneurship.
This talk examines the online discourse of black hāfu, or individuals of mixed black and Japanese descent. Although the term hāfu has customarily been associated with phenotypically white/Eurasian features and in the postwar period was used to situate Japanese in proximity to an idealized white modernity, in recent years it has increasingly come to refer to half-black Japanese as well.
-This conference will be in Spanish. Simultaneous English translation will be available.-
This conference on Gender Studies in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities in the Americas will feature several sessions on the importance of gender studies, including a keynote from Professor Ana G. Buquet Corleto, Director, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de Género (CIEG) at UNAM.
Beinecke Library’s Melissa Barton, Nancy Kuhl, and Tubyez Cropper will speak on some of the authors, artists, and activists photographed by Carl Van Vechten and whose images are included in a new outdoor display on the library’s ground floor windows.
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A conversation with Lausan.
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The Office of International Students & Scholars is excited to collaborate with the Native American Cultural Center and the Association of Native Americans at Yale for our third Understanding America event of the fall semester.
At a moment of transnational racial reckoning, this listening session explores black frequency as a site of possibility. It engages black frequency in multiple forms: as a sonic space that ranges from silence to deafening, dissonant noise; as a register of ecstatic rapture and spirituality; as a temporal feedback loop of memory, repetition, and renewal; as a dynamic relation of call and response, or chorus and verse; as a haptic and kinetic space of contact and connection across the African continent and its various diasporas.
In continuation of our programming this semester, the M.E.D. Working Group for Anti-Racism will be hosting our third round table event: COMMONS. This event will bring together: Lauren Hudson, Sunny Iyer, Rachel Valinsky, and Dan Taeyoung. Like our past interlocutors, their work and practices are broad and multidisciplinary, but what brings them together for our fall final event is their work as NYC-based community organizers working in broad, expanded frameworks of spatial practice: as educators, mutual aid organizers, and small press publishers.
As museums reimagine how anthropology interprets Africa and “Blackness,” they are wrestling with both the residues of historical race science and the realities of anti-Black racism in America today. For anthropologists working in museums this “decolonizing the museum” approach means balancing anthropology as a science against pseudoscientific notions of Africa and “Blackness” that museums and anthropology helped to visually codify in the popular imagination.
