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Max is joined by Jamila Michener, PhD, associate professor in the department of government at Cornell University, and health policy scholar (@povertyscholar on twitter). They discuss Americans' the affordable care act and government-sponsored health insurance, what's race, ethnicity and migration got to do with it, and the future of the ACA in...
Dr Mukoma Ngugi is one of the famous Kenyan writers, thanks to his last name and his unmatched storytelling skills. The Professor of English at Cornell University has been one of Kenyan literature’s key ambassadors in the western world through carefully selected themes and writing skills. For example, Mukoma has created platforms, such as Mabati-...
AUNT JEMIMAPepsiCo Inc said on June 17 it would change the name and brand image of its Aunt Jemima pancake and syrup mix, which has long been considered racist.The more than 130-year-old brand logo features an African-American woman named after a character from 19th-century minstrel shows and is rooted in a stereotype of a friendly black woman...
This month, I became inducted into a club that never would have had me as a member; I became a fellow of the Linnean Society. The world’s oldest active biological society, founded in 1788 for the production of natural history by gentlemen in the metropole, for “armchair naturalists and collectors” as art historian Sria Chatterjee aptly describes...
Tackling the conceptual grounds of how maps have been deployed as tools of imperial capitalist extraction, this essay critiques how the two-dimensional visualization of land has traditionally flattened the racial entanglement of the Caribbean archipelago. It explores how born-digital cartography can be used to open up a new sensory possibility for...
Noliwe Rooks, a professor of literature at Cornell University whose work explores such topics as race, capitalism and education, told the Advance/SILive.com at the time that students who know the basics, have an innate curiosity, and often test at the upper levels of standardized testing will do well in online learning. But for those who are grade...
Helping current students is a key priority for the Cornell Black Alumni Association (CBAA), whose members provide support for Black alumni and students through scholarships, networking opportunities, social programming and other resources.CBAA President John W. Rawlins III ’06 says alumni involved with the organization continue to step up in new...
Museums Need to Expand Whom They Listen to—Fast.Roundtable 5 | Voices of authority: expertise, participation and inclusion in the museum of tomorrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPseh2oZyxA&feature=emb_logoWell before the pandemic, museums were facing calls to address their inherent biases. Those calls became louder and more intent amid...
The apparent insignificance of such a consequential event as the Libya intervention in the American consciousness is not in itself racist. Yet race and the racialization of Africa and Africans took center stage in so-called Western deliberations leading up to the intervention in Libya. Race played a dual role in the Libyan intervention. First, it...
...Noliwe Rooks, director of the American Studies Program and professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, wrote an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education that offered advice to faculty about teaching current events. The article, published in Fall 2014, came after a summer of uproar following the shooting of...
Harris, Abrams, Bottoms, Bush and Warnock add to a long history of HBCUs' impact across generations.Noliwe Rooks, the W.E.B. Du Bois professor of literature in the department of Africana studies at Cornell University, said in a statement that HBCUs in contemporary and historical politics speak "to a very different conception of and path to...
...Many experts on transitional justice agree that the United States is experiencing a unique moment suited to the convening of a truth and reconciliation commission like the one Lee is proposing. “We will never get any kind of meaningful reconciliation in American society…until we meaningfully and publicly, and officially, deal with our past,”...
We honor and salute the life and legacy of John Lewis. His contributions also make him a foremost leader in the black liberation movement and quintessential emblem of the black radical tradition, areas that many scholars study and celebrate within the field of Africana studies, including Africana@Cornell. In choosing to dedicate his life and...
The Institute for African Development (IAD), part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, has been awarded a three-year, $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to strengthen African studies and languages for Cornell undergraduates through programs on campus and in Africa.ProvidedPast IAD intern Elizabeth Heffern ’...
Earlier this month, the New York Public Library compiled a list of books exploring key issues of this election, like climate change, racial equality, public health, immigration, and more. No matter what happens next week, one thing is certain: It will be just one step in ongoing work. Below, we've featured some of our favorite books from the...
Fear of contracting the virus, coupled with the country’s long history of institutional racism, has sown distrust, said Noliwe Rooks, a professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University. Even though there is some evidence that shows schools can reopen safely in most parts of the country, she pointed to the virus’ toll on people of color. In the...
...The thought of Aunt Jemima might bring up sweet memories from your childhood, but the branding is actually based on a harmful racial stereotype. According to Riché Richardson, an associate professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, the logo is based on the idea of the “mammy,” a “devoted and submissive servant...
In her fourth State of the University Address – and, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the first one ever held entirely online – Cornell President Martha E. Pollack praised the university community’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and reaffirmed Cornell’s essential mission and core values for the future.As part of that future, she...
In today’s edition of All Things Equal, host Gary Stewart is joined by Cornell professors Carol Boyce-Davies and Anne Adams on the Toni Morrison reading of ”The Bluest Eye” on Oct. 8.https://whcuradio.com/podcasts/all-things-equal-10-6-20/
Dark Laboratory, a “humanities incubator” for digital storytelling with a special focus on Black and Indigenous voices in upstate New York, will go public on Oct. 12, Indigenous Peoples’ Day, with a virtual gathering and website launch open to all.The project is led by Tao Leigh Goffe, assistant professor of Africana Studies and Feminist, Gender...
Ethnic studies have been controversial since they were first conceived in the 1960s. The Cornell University professor Noliwe Rooks has noted that the Ford Foundation backed early university Black-studies programs at least in part to keep students from being “lured into more radical politics like that of the Black Panther Party.” In the 1970s and...
Communing with the dead, navigating new parenthood, and exploring Y2K teen pop stardom and the Black genius behind it are among the themes of five student-written short plays debuting online October 8–10 for the Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts’ (PMA) 8th annual 10-Minute Play Festival. The festival, hosted by PMA and the...
Noliwe Rooks, a professor of at Cornell University whose work explores such topics as race, capitalism and education, told the Advance/SILive.com this past spring that New York City children who were already struggling are going to fall further behind during the coronavirus pandemic.“…The longer that this goes on and as long as we’re clear this...
Ithaca, NY – September 28, 2020 – Two Cornell University professors, Tao Leigh Goffe and Jeffrey Palmer, will host a virtual block party to launch the website for their much-anticipated new initiative DARK LABORATORY, a humanities incubator on Black and Indigenous immersive digital storytelling, theory, and design, on October 12, 2020 at 7PM EST...
