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Professor Gerard Aching was interviewed regarding The Africana Studies Coarse, ASRC 1996 :The Underground Railroad Seminar:Students at Cornell University are using technology to teach people about Black History Month.Last semester, students visited spots on the Underground Railroad as part of a class. And now they’ve taken what they learned...
That is a striking truth at the heart of an important new book, “Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and The End of Public Education.” It was written by Noliwe M. Rooks, director of American studies at Cornell University whose research includes racial inequality in education.Rooks takes a unique look at the history of and the forces...
School segregation is big business – and it’s been that way throughout American history, according to Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education by Noliwe Rooks, director of American Studies and associate professor of Africana Studies and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University.For Rooks,...
ITHACA– Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy is being celebrated today across the nation and locally.The initial proposal for MLK Day began shortly after King’s assassination in 1968. It’s usually observed around King’s January 15th birthday as a day of remembrance for the activist, preacher, and Civil Rights leader.Cornell Professor Kevin Gaines...
African Americans are increasingly saying goodbye to the United States and hello to Africa, pointing to institutionalised racism, but also a longing to connect to their roots.The destination for most is Ghana in West Africa, though it can be a cumbersome process.Mawunyo Gbogbo recently visited Ghana for PM.Duration: 7min 18secBroadcast:...
For children in Baltimore classrooms, 2018 opened with buildings where temperatures never topped 40 degrees. An incensed teacher wondered why persevering in abominable conditions is something “we only ask of black and brown children.”A new book by Cornell professor Noliwe Rooks, “Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation and the End of Public...
On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Dr. Noliwe Rooks, director of American Studies and associate professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University, and author of Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation and The End of Public Education. Listen to the interview.
Three Cornell students won the creativity award for their architectural design of an eco-friendly school to be built in Ghana at a major NGO’s gala aimed to raise funds.With the recent finalization of their design, Voices of African Mothers’ vision of building the school came closer to reality, and brought the NGO closer to achieving its larger...
Conceived as a multi-sited exhibition, Three Crossings brings together works of three artists, each installed in a different Amsterdam venue. The exhibition focuses on each artist's experimentation with the genre "the artist's book." It also includes, in the cases of El-Salahi and Brouwn, other relevant pieces that broaden our appreciation of...
Noliwe Rooks is the director of American studies at Cornell University and the author of Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education. This is an edited transcript.Jennifer Berkshire: In your new book, Cutting School, you introduce a concept you call 'segrenomics.' It’s the combination of the segregation that...
Throughout the past semester, nearly 50 students have devoted their academic endeavors to studying one arguably revolutionary figure: Beyoncé.The instructor for the course, Prof. Riché Richardson, Africana studies, said Beyoncé Nation, a course cross-listed with the English, American Studies, Africana Studies, and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality...
In October, Professor Riché Richardson was interviewed about the Beyoncé course by Nicole Poitras at Emerson College in Boston on WERS SoundCloud radio for a segment entitled “Pop Culture in the College Classroom”.Listen to the SoundCloud.
The new course that Africana Studies associate professor and Montgomery, Alabama native Riché Richardson is teaching this fall, “Beyoncé Nation,” drew an enrollment of 75 students from diverse majors and disciplines at Cornell. Her research for her second book and interest in Beyoncé’s Southern roots inspired her to develop this course. It...
“WHAT DID IT MEAN to be a Black artist in the USA during the Civil Rights movement and at the birth of Black Power?” In its ambitious exploration of that question, “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” at the Tate Modern, London, brought together more than 150 works produced between 1963 and 1983—an intense, transformative period in...
On Monday, the retired four-star general and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly asserted that “the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War.” This was an incredibly stupid thing to say. Worse, it built on a long tradition of endorsing stupidity in hopes of making Americans stupid about their own history. Stupid enjoys an...
Novelist Colson Whitehead won the 2017 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Fiction Award for “The Underground Railroad,” a novel that documents the life of a 15-year-old enslaved girl named Cora who escapes from a cotton plantation in Georgia, where life is horrendous. With a slave catcher hunting her, she makes a harrowing flight north in...
Last year, the Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell University launched the ISS Annual Lecture series to bring an eminent scholar to Ithaca to speak on a pressing social issue. Each year the ISS co-sponsors the lecture with different social science units on campus in order to build bridges across diverse communities.This year, ISS is...
FEATURING NOLIWE ROOKS – Donald Trump’s Secretary of Education Betsy Devos is finding it hard to attend public events without being the target of protests. The virulently strong supporter of school privatization and charter schools has become a lynchpin for mass dismay of the state of our public school system. But privatization did not begin with...
Cornell Black Alumni Association Alumni & Student Professional Networking Mixer, 5:30-7 p.m., Oct. 21, Africana Studies and Research Center. The Cornell Black Alumni Association, Africana Studies and Research Center, Ujamaa and the Iota Phi Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. invite students and alumni to come for professional...
The Africana Studies & Research Center (ASRC) and Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program (FGSS) at Cornell University invite applicants for a joint tenure-track position for scholars working at the intersection of gender, race, and environmental studies at the rank of assistant professor. We seek a candidate whose research and...
The rise of Donald Trump has thrust the Ku Klux Klan into the national spotlight. To better understand the true threat of the Klan and its history of violence and terror, it is crucial to return to work by civil rights activists of an earlier era, especially William Bradford Huie’s 1967 The Klansman. This novel, published 50 years ago, examines...
Come join faculty, staff and students in a protest against racism #takeaknee#TakeAKnee to Protest Racism this Wednesday at 12:30 on the Arts QuadDuring the 2016 football preseason, long before Donald Trump was elected President, NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the playing of the National Anthem to protest the killing of...
How can Africa, the home to some of the largest bodies of water in the world, be said to have a water crisis? It doesn't, says Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò -- it has a knowledge crisis. Táíwò suggests that lack of knowledge on important topics like water and food is what stands between Africa's current state and a future of prosperity. In a powerful talk, he...
Why are public schools failing? Why is school segregation higher than it’s been since the mid-20th century? To answer these questions, Noliwe Rooks followed the money. Her new book, “Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education,” traces the financing of segregated education in America, beginning with Civil War...
Nassau, The Bahamas – Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture the Hon. Michael Pintard applauded the exchange of about 20 books by Bahamian authors with New York State's Cornell University and called the initiative “powerful.”“To the extent that we can have more Bahamian publications placed in libraries around the world, it would increase the...