Professor Oksana Ingle’s book review of Andrejs Plakans’ A Concise History of the Baltic States (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2011) appeared in the spring 2013 issue of Slavic and East European Journal.
Avery Research Center, 6:00 pm. Dr. Sabine Broeck discusses how Black feminism figured prominently in controversial debates after the 1960s between African-American female post-civil rights-movement activist intellectuals and their male opponents in both Black leftist and Black nationalist organizations. She also discusses how powerful Black feminist public voices made the racist undertones of white feminism more visible. Broeck recalls the force of these earlier interventions, and looks at their relevance in current Black feminist debates.
Brown Bag Series: “Black Studies Beyond Ethnography,” Sabine Broeck, University of Bremen, Germany, Avery Research Center, 12-1:15 pm. Dr. Sabine Broeck discusses the challenges of doing Black Studies in a predominantly white European academic environment. As acting president of the international Collegium for African American Research (CAAR: http://www.caar-web.org/) she will also address how such challenges have been reflected in the longstanding academic practices of African Americanists in Europe.