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Sawyer Seminar Series feat. James Forman: "Can the Criminal Justice System Ever Be Just?"
Sawyer Seminar Series: Roger Reeves in conversation with Yogita Goyal
Sawyer Seminar Series: "'Unsophisticated Buyers': Black Homeownership and the end of the Urban Crisis in the 1970s" with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Sawyer Seminar Series: "Playing While White: Power, Privilege and the Politics of Protest" with David J. Leonard
Sawyer Seminar Series: "Anthropology and the Riddle of White Supremacy" with Junaid Rana
Sawyer Seminar Series: "Terrorist, Gang Member, Provocateur: Visuality and (Dis)placement in the Bay Area” with Maryam Kashani
Sawyer Seminar Series feat. Deborah Thomas: "Four Days in May"
Sawyer Seminar Series feat. G. Reid Andrews: "To Count or Not to Count: Race in Latin American Censuses, 1776-2020"
Sawyer Seminar Series feat. Michele Reid-Vazquez: "Countering Disposability: Black Mobility and Resistance in the Age of Revolution"
Fall 2018 Student Welcome Back Party
“Tragic but not Criminal: Challenging the ‘Objective Reasonableness’ of Police Killings” with Lisa Cacho
‘Before the Human: Africans, Sovereigns & Slaves’ with Herman L. Bennett
Herman Bennett - Faculty and Graduate Workshop - “Africa & the Formation of Afro-Latin America”
"The Racial Logics of Extraction" with Christopher Loperena
Christopher Loperena - Faculty and Grad workshop - "The Limits of Indigeneity: Pueblo Garifuna v. Honduras"
"The Future of Black Studies (In Theory)" with Dr. Brittney Cooper
"The Denial of Anti-Blackness: Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering" with João Costa Vargas
João Costa Vargas - Faculty and graduate workshop - "The Denial of Anti-Blackness"

Penn State receives $225,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

A team of Penn State faculty led by Cynthia Young, associate professor and head of the Penn State Department of African American Studies, has received a $225,000 charitable grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Seminars program to examine racial disposability and cultures of resistance.

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