{"id":51550,"date":"2017-03-30T02:03:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T02:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51550"},"modified":"2017-03-31T01:27:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T01:27:09","slug":"aia-evening-lecture-an-overlooked-chapter-in-the-history-of-egyptology-w-e-b-dubois-marcus-garvey-pauline-hopkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51550","title":{"rendered":"AIA Evening Lecture: An Overlooked Chapter in the History of Egyptology: W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey & Pauline Hopkins"},"content":{"rendered":"

AIA Evening Lecture: An Overlooked Chapter in the History of Egyptology: W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey & Pauline Hopkins<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Penn Museum<\/a>
\nUniversity of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
\n3260 South Street
\nPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
\nThursday, 2017-03-30, 18:00-19:00 EDT (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Vanessa Davies<\/a>, Visiting Research Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, speaks at this Archaeological Institute of America Philadelphia Society<\/a> lecture. Three prominent black writers of the early 20th century\u2014W.E.B. Du Bois<\/a>, Marcus Garvey<\/a>, and Pauline Hopkins<\/a>\u2014incorporated ancient Egyptian culture<\/a> into their writings. Attacking a common theory of their day, DuBois and Garvey used ancient Egyptian culture to argue for the humanity of black people, marshaling evidence of Egypt\u2019s<\/a> glorious past to inspire black people in the Americas with feelings of hope and self-worth. They also engaged with the contemporary work of prominent archaeologists, a fact lost in most histories of Egyptology<\/a>. Hopkins\u2019 novel Of One Blood<\/em><\/a> places the reality of the racial discrimination and the racial \u201cpassing\u201d<\/a> of her day against the backdrop of ancient Egypt. Like Du Bois, she advocates for the education of black Americans, and like Garvey, she constructs an African safe haven for her novel\u2019s protagonist. Understanding these three writers\u2019 treatments of ancient Egypt, Davies argues, provides a richer perspective on the history of the discipline of Egyptology. Reception with opportunity to meet the speaker follows.<\/p>\n

For more information, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vanessa Davies, Visiting Research Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, speaks at this Archaeological Institute of America Philadelphia Society lecture. Three prominent black writers of the early 20th century\u2014W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, and Pauline Hopkins\u2014incorporated ancient Egyptian culture into their writings. Attacking a common theory of their day, DuBois and Garvey used ancient Egyptian culture to argue for the humanity of black people, marshaling evidence of Egypt\u2019s glorious past to inspire black people in the Americas with feelings of hope and self-worth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,1649,1196,13,8,20],"tags":[26215,26216,26217,26214,6809,90,26213,26212,26211,122],"class_list":["post-51550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-literary-criticism","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-ancient-egypt","tag-archaeological-institute-of-america","tag-archaeological-institute-of-america-philadelphia-society","tag-egyptology","tag-marcus-garvey","tag-pauline-hopkins","tag-penn-museum","tag-university-of-pennsylvania-museum-of-archaeology-and-anthropology","tag-vanessa-davies","tag-w-e-b-du-bois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51550","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=51550"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51723,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51550\/revisions\/51723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}