Brown Bag Series: Black American Studies: University of Delaware

BAMS includes a faculty of talented, productive and thoughtful scholars and researchers. BAMS is fortunate to have such a diversity of scholars whose work intersects the mission of Black American Studies. BAMS is a multidisciplinary inquiry into the life and culture of persons of African Descent in America. This inquiry is also informed by African Diasporic experiences around the world including the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa and Europe. The research, scholarship and program offerings of our faculty enhance our

Maggie Ussery, Assistant Professor, Black American Studies

understanding of these experiences and ultimately contribute to knowledge and programs that will make a difference in the quality of education for our Minors(and soon majors), and all students who take BAMS courses.

The BAMS Brown Bag lectures are offered monthly and provide an opportunity for BAMS faculty to share their research and scholarship with the University community. From time to time, the scholarship of our faculty intersects events that are particularly timely and important to African American citizens in a particular locale or in the world generally. When contemporary events connect with the scholarship of one our faculty, we sponsor a presentation and discussion on the topic or event. Beyond these timely topics, we also bring important scholarship and research on ongoing issues. In sum, the BAMS Brown Bag is scholarly forum for presentations that offers a chance to engage in discussion and exchange. It is vibrant and vital, and an important contribution to the discourse on Black American Studies at the University of Delaware.

All lectures take place from 12:15-1:10 p.m. in room 206 in the Trabant University Center and are free and open to the pubic.

"Black Americans, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Representation of Black Interests " by David C. Wilson, Assistant Professor; Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware.

"Afro-Antillean Constructions of Islandness in Caribbean Microstates and Archipelagos " by Carla Guerron-Montero, Assistant Professor; Department of Anthropology, University of Delaware.

"The Unintended Consequences of Colorblindness: How Race and Ethnicity Affect Teacher Perceptions" by Antonia Randolph, Assistant Professor; Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware.

"Dark Truth: Racial Signaling Among Black Workers" by Maggie Ussery, Assistant Professor; Black American Studies, University of Delaware.

"Moses and the Monster and Miss Anne: Three Dangerous Women of the Eastern Shore of Maryland " by Carole Marks, Professor; Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware.

"The Street Life Project: How Street Life Oriented Black Men Frame Notions of Resiliency in the Face of Inadequate Economic and Educational Opportunity as a Function of Generational Standpoint" by Yasser A. Payne, Assistant Professor; Black American Studies, University of Delaware.

"Racial Progress, Racial Realities, and Perceptions of Prospective Black Presidential Candidates" by David C. Wilson, Assistant Professor; Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware.

Monday, February 20, 2006
     “Quilt Spaces: Memory and Design in Gee's Bend Quilts” by Bernard Herman, Edward and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Art History and director of the Center for American Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware.

Monday, March 20, 2006
     "Religiosity and Communalism among African Americans: Why Doing Good Feels Good." by Nyasha Grayman, assistant professor of Individual and Family Studies, University of Delaware.

Monday, April 17, 2006
     Topic TBA, by Dr. Arica Coleman, Instructor, Black American Studies, University of Delaware.

Monday, May 15, 2006
     “Change the Joke, Slip the Yoke: The Black Male Image in Print and Film,” by Carol Henderson, associate professor of English, University of Delaware.