Tag: Barnard College

  • CSER W4701 Troubling the Color: Passing, Inter-racial Sex, and Ethnic Ambiguity. Barnard College New York, New York 2016-17 Catalogue Karl Jacoby, Professor of History Columbia University, New York, New York Passing, remarked W.E.B. Du Bois in 1929, “is a petty, silly matter of no real importance which another generation will comprehend with great difficulty.”  Yet passing and…

  • Japanese-Brazilian Music and Ethnic Identity in the Post-Dekasegi Era: A lecture by Shanna Lorenz Barnard College, Columbia University Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall 3009 Broadway, New York, New York 2013-02-28, 18:00 EST (Local Time) Shanna Lorenz, Assistant Professor, Music; Advisory Committee, Latino/a and Latin American Studies Occidental College, Los Angeles This talk explores how…

  • Bringing together our collective stories The African Courier: The International Magazine Published in Germany October/November 2012 Gyavira Lasana The second annual convention of the Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey took place at Barnard College in New York City recently. Our New York-based contributing editor Gyavira Lasana reports on the convention, which focused on…

  • SOCI W 3277x: Post-Racial America? Barnard College, Columbia University Fall 2011 Alondra Nelson, Associate Professor of Sociology What is race? Is the US a post-racial society? Is such a society desirable? Is a post-racial society necessarily a just and egalitarian one? We consider these questions from ethnographic, historical, and theoretical perspectives. Topics discussed include intersectionality,…