{"id":32843,"date":"2013-08-16T01:35:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T01:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32843"},"modified":"2013-08-16T01:35:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T01:35:59","slug":"umass-recognizes-growing-interdisciplinary-study-of-black-germans-in-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32843","title":{"rendered":"UMASS Recognizes Growing Interdisciplinary Study of Black Germans in Academia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/diverseeducation.com\/article\/55213\" target=\"_blank\">UMASS Recognizes Growing Interdisciplinary Study of Black Germans in Academia<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diverseeducation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diverse: Issues in Higher Education<\/a><br \/>\n2013-08-12<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamal Watson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AMHERST, Mass.\u2014In an effort to recognize a relatively young academic discipline that many in the academy have never heard of before, nearly a hundred students and scholars gathered at Amherst College over the weekend to discuss their research and ideas for how to grow Black German Studies.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the third year that the <a href=\"http:\/\/blackgermans.us\" target=\"_blank\">Black German Heritage &amp; Research Association<\/a> sponsored the international <a href=\"http:\/\/blackgermans.us\/convention2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">conference<\/a>, which highlighted a variety of interdisciplinary topics ranging from Black Germans during the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nazi_Germany\" target=\"_blank\">Third Reich<\/a> to their ongoing presence in German theater.<\/p>\n<p>Like African American, Women and Queer studies, Black German Studies has an admitted social justice focus, says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umass.edu\/german\/people\/profiles\/SaraLennox.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Sara Lennox<\/a>, a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and an early founder of the Black German Studies movement in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve made the field legitimate. You can now do this work and get tenure,\u201d says Lennox, who was chiefly responsible for jumpstarting the Black German Studies concentration at UMASS Amherst. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of a burgeoning field and movement. The other thing that\u2019s really cool is there is a pretty strong connection between activism and scholarship and a really strong connection with the experimental \u2026 Black Germans talking about their stories.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/diverseeducation.com\/article\/55213\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UMASS Recognizes Growing Interdisciplinary Study of Black Germans in Academia Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2013-08-12 Jamal Watson AMHERST, Mass.\u2014In an effort to recognize a relatively young academic discipline that many in the academy have never heard of before, nearly a hundred students and scholars gathered at Amherst College over the weekend to discuss their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,8,20],"tags":[5586,14703,7172,2948,15427,15429,15428,11562],"class_list":["post-32843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-amherst-college","tag-black-german-heritage-research-association","tag-diverse-issues-in-higher-education","tag-germany","tag-jamal-watson","tag-jemele-watkins","tag-kevina-king","tag-sara-lennox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}