Winter Gathering: Welcome Joanne Barker!
We invite you to welcome Joanne Barker, our visiting scholar in Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago! We will be hosting a dinner gathering on November 15, 6pm.
Please RSVP by November 11.
King Discussion & Social
We will be discussing Tiffany Lethabo King’s The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies. Please contact the coordinator if you have yet to receive a copy of the text.
Nichols Discussion
We will be discussing Robert Nichols’s Theft Is Property!: Dispossession and Critical Theory. Please contact the coordinator if you have yet to receive a copy of the text.
Moreton-Robinson Discussion
We will be discussing Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty. Please contact the coordinator if you have yet to receive a copy of the text.
RESCHEDULED: Incubator Discussion
We will be discussing Malinda Maynor Lowery’s Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South. Please contact the coordinator if you have yet to receive a copy of the text.
Miles Discussion
We will be discussing Tiya Miles’s Ties that Bind. Please contact the coordinator if you have yet to receive a copy of the text.
Conversation at the Newberry Library with Tiya Miles & Megan Sweeney
A Simple Cotton Sack: A Conversation about African American Women, Trauma, and Resistance
Join the Newberry Library for a conversation between Tiya Miles and Megan Sweeney focusing on the ways that women exercise agency under significant constraints and find meaning and beauty amid pain. In a display case at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is a rough cotton bag embroidered with a remembrance that evokes a sweeping family story of loss and of love, passed down through generations. This inspired Tiya Miles to carefully unearth these women's faint presence in archival records. She follows the paths of their lives—and the lives of so many women like them—in her recent book, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake. This revelatory history of the experience of slavery and the uncertain freedom afterward won the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Click here to register for the online event.
RESCHEDULED: Chang Discussion
We will be discussing David A. Chang’s The Color of Land. Please contact the coordinator if you have yet to receive a copy of the text.
CANCELED: Chang Discussion
We will be discussing David A. Chang’s The Color of Land. Please contact the coordinator if you have yet to receive a copy of the text.
Incubator Discussion
We will be discussing Alondra Nelson’s The Social Life of DNA. Please contact the coordinator if you have yet to receive a copy of the text.
Incubator Discussion
We will be discussing Kim TallBear’s Native American DNA. Please contact the coordinator if you have yet to receive a copy of the text.
Incubator Discussion
We will be discussing Lee Baker’s Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture. Please contact the coordinator if you have yet to receive a copy of the text.
Relational Futures Symposium with SMART Museum and Newberry Library
“Relational Futures: A Symposium for Indigenous Land, Water, and Environment,” a three-day event that will take place in Chicago on October 7-9, 2021. Bringing together Indigenous scholars, activists, and policymakers, this symposium offers a platform for dialogue around Indigenous relationships to land, water, and environment in the context of planetary climate change, enduring legacies of toxic exposure, and ongoing resource extraction. The event is planned in conjunction with the exhibition Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40 at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago and the D’Arcy McNickle Distinguished Lecture series at the Newberry Library with additional support from the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at Northwestern University and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at UChicago.