Sentences with phrase «scholar of black history»

Manning Marable, the African - American author and historian whom the New York Times called «a leading scholar of black history,» passed away two weeks ago on April 1, at age 60.

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One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.

This gives womanist scholars the freedom to explore the particularities of black women's history and culture without being guided by what white feminists have already identified as women's issues.

Celebrate Black History Month with the help of 10 ideas that delve deep into the history, major events, contributions, famous African Americans, and sheds light on how scholars today can take a proactive stance on current civil riHistory Month with the help of 10 ideas that delve deep into the history, major events, contributions, famous African Americans, and sheds light on how scholars today can take a proactive stance on current civil rihistory, major events, contributions, famous African Americans, and sheds light on how scholars today can take a proactive stance on current civil rights...

«We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s - 1970s» @ Woodmere Art Museum Philadelphia This exhibition grew out of 14 oral history interviews with artists and their families, art dealers, scholar and museum curators, centers around the city organizations and institutions that provided a foundation and a platform for artists to pursue their careers.

Indeed, the social histories and identity politics explored in work made during the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Arts Movements is being investigated by a new generation of scholars and curators, bringing attention to overlooked artists central to the era, AfriCOBRA artists in particular.

Dr. Weber's research has been presented Dance History Scholars Conference held at the New York Public Library in 1993 and through the Hall of Black Achievement at Bridgewater State University in 1999.

2009 Collecting African American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges, Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY; Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, Baltimore, MD; I.P. Stanback Museum & Planetarium, Orangeburg, SC; Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie, IL; Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL; National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA; Holocaust Memorial Center, Farmington Hills, MI; Dusable Museum of African & American History, Chicago, IL

Numerous scholars have explored the history of performance art as a manifestation of radical shifts in social thought and artistic practice, but only a small handful of publications have specifically focused on black performance art.

Our ninth annual ReVIEWING Black Mountain College international conference, in partnership with UNC Asheville, gathers artists and scholars who explore the history and legacy of Black Mountain College.

Her recent publications include «History in the Present», in Ghosting, The Role of the Archive Within Contemporary Artists» Film and Video (Jane Connarty and Josephine Lanyon eds, Bristol: Picture This Moving Image and The Arts Council, 2006); «Patterning Memory: Ellen Gallagher's «Icthyosaurus» at the Freud Museum», Wasafari, November 2006; and «Migratory Aesthetics: (Dis) placing the Black Maternal Subject in Martina Attille's Dreaming Rivers (1988)», in Black British Aesthetics Today (Victoria Arana ed., Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007).

Although many Asian artists identified as «Black» during this 1980s and early «90s, the project seeks to consider how the changing understanding of this term has helped and hindered scholars when attempting to articulate British - Asian art histories.