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African and African Diaspora Studies

Books by Black Studies at UT faculty

Want to Learn More About Race in America? Read this.

September 2, 2020 by Rachel White

Authors from UT Austin’s College of Liberal Arts describe their books and what they hope readers will learn.

Juneteenth illustration with yellow flowers, first, broken chains.

What is Juneteenth?

June 19, 2020 by Rachel E. Winston, Daina Ramey Berry and Kevin Cokley

Although Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, the date the holiday observes, June 19, 1865, came more than two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, when Texas finally received word that slavery had ended. It may come as a surprise, but President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation did not effectively free […]

LaToya Ruby Frazier, Huxtables, Mom and Me, 2009, from The Notion of Family Courtesy of the artist and Michel Rein, Paris/Brussels

Riveted: LaToya Ruby Frazier Exhibition Challenges Representational and Environmental Racism

November 7, 2014 by Emily Nielsen

LaToya Ruby Frazier, Huxtables, Mom and Me, 2009, from The Notion of Family. Courtesy of the artist and Michel Rein, Paris/Brussels Award-winning artist LaToya Ruby Frazier’s exhibition, “Riveted,” will be on view from Nov. 7 through Dec. 6 at the Visual Arts Center at UT Austin. Frazier’s work documents the effects of economic and environmental […]

Imagining a More Equitable World for Africa’s Gay Community

March 15, 2014 by Jessica Sinn

In most African countries, being gay means living in constant fear. For example, an anti-homosexuality bill recently signed by Uganda President Yoweri Museveni calls for 14 years in prison for first time offenders and life in prison for repeat offenders. Even those who don’t report gay friends and loved ones are considered to be breaking […]

Luz Torres, a housekeeper at the Eldorado Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico, cleans one of the hotel’s rooms in December 2011. Torres is paid more than Santa Fe’s minimum wage.

Help Wanted

April 10, 2013 by Jessica Sinn Leave a Comment

Policy report shows minimum wage lifts women out of poverty, boosts consumer spending In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama made a bold claim: “Tonight, let’s declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to […]

Ted Gordon

A Major Step Forward

May 10, 2010 by Gary Susswein Leave a Comment

New department focuses on African experience A brand new academic department will focus on the experiences of African Americans, indigenous Africans and people of African descent around the world and, ultimately, will be the only Black Studies department in the South or Southwest that offers Ph.D.s. The Department of African and African Diaspora Studies was […]

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