The Sonja Haynes Stone Center will host noted Cape Verdean filmmaker Guenny Pires for a screening and discussion of his film CONTRACT. The documentary discusses the centuries-old system of contract slave labor that exported thousands of Cape Verdeans to the island of … Read more
The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History will host Monika Gosin for its 2020 Author's Discussion Series. She will be talking about her book The Racial Politics of Division: Interethnic Struggles for Legitimacy in Multicultural Miami. The event … Read more
Joe W. Trotter, Jr. will deliver the 2020 Diaspora Lecture and discuss his latest publication Workers on Arrival: Black Labor and the Making of America. From the ongoing issues of poverty, health, housing and employment to the recent upsurge of … Read more
On Thursday, May 28, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center will host Cape Verdean filmmaker and Stone Center Visiting Artist Guenny Pires for a virtual screening and Q&A session for the North Carolina premiere of his award-winning film CONTRACT. The virtual screening … Read more
The Stone Center’s 2021 Writer’s Discussion Series on March 23 at 3:30 p.m. will host Yomaira C. Figuero-Vasquez, an associate professor of global diaspora studies in the Department of English at Michigan State University. Register here for this event. Mapping … Read more
Join the Asian American Center and the Carolina Asia Center on March 31 at 7:00 p.m. as they co-present a workshop led by Dr. Nitasha Sharma. This is part of the ongoing series Anti-Blackness and Alliance: A Series on Asian-Black … Read more
Join the Stone Center’s 2021 Author’s Discussion Series on April 1 at 3:30 p.m. This discussion will feature Ricardo A. Wilson II, assistant professor in the Department of English and affiliate faculty in the Program in Comparative Literature at Williams … Read more
While there are rich cultural and historical connections between North and sub-Saharan Africa, complex divisions exist in the conceptualization of African, Black, and Arab identities. In this roundtable discussion, panelists will address the legacies of colonialism, slavery and the construction … Read more
The Asian American Center and the Carolina Asia Center are proud to co-present ‘The Past and Present of Activist Alliance’ panel featuring Jeanelle Hope, Hồng-An Trương, Dr. Ronald Williams, Manju Rajendran, and Betty Yu, part of the ongoing series “Anti-Blackness … Read more
Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution Kriolas Poderozas EDITED BY TERZA A. SILVA LIMA-NEVES AND AMINAH N. PILGRIM Terza A. Silva Lima-Neves is associate professor of political science and chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Johnson C. … Read more
