Sp23

Black Studies Program

Spring 2023 Events

Freedom To Learn National Day of Action

Skidmore Student Solidarity

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

The following Academic Festival presenters have affirmed that their work is in solidarity with the principles of Freedom To Learn.

Lea Leventhal,Self-Determined Social Justice/Dance double major,鈥淢ovement, Daoism, and Social Action鈥�,Thomas Myhill

Art/Gender Studies double major,鈥淭he Radical Acceptance of Saint Marinos,鈥�

Aaron Shellow-Lavine,American Studies major/Black Studies minor,"Confronting Copaganda in American Politics and Media"

Raven Jade Villa,American Studies major/Black Studies minor,"Strike, Pose: Locating (Trans)Cultural Geographies in American History and Culture"

Screening and Panel Discussion: Outta The Muck

Tue, Apr 11 @ 7:00pm, Davis Aud - Skidmore College

Family, football and history come to life in an intimate portrait of the Dean family, longtime residents of the historic town of Pahokee, Florida. Take a journey back home, with filmmaker Ira McKinley, to the land of sugarcane, as he reconnects with his niece Bridget and nephew Alvin and explores their shared family history that spans seven generations. Told through stories that transcend space and time, Outta The Muck presents a community, and a family, that resists despair with love, remaining fiercely self-determined, while forging their own unique narrative of Black achievement.

Presented with co-directors Ira McKinley and Bhawin Suchak in attendance for Q&A.

Sponsored by Skidmore's MDOCS and Media & FilmStudies, and the Black Studies Program.

鈥淐ontemporary Mohawk Voices: Past, Present and Future鈥� with Tom Sakokwenionkwas Porter, Mohawk Elder and Kay Ionataiewas Olan, Mohawk Storyteller

Monday April 3, 2023 5pm
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Filene Recital Hall

Free and Open to the Public

"Blackness in Mexico"
Anthony Russell Jerry

Monday, March 27th, 6pm, Gannett

Professor Jerry visits our campus to discuss his new book Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica (University of Florida Press - May 23'). Professor Anthony Russell Jerry will join Professor Bernardo Ramirez Rios in a sit-down conversation exploring the history, culture, and experiences of black communities in Mexico.

Professor Anthony Russell Jerry is a professor of anthropology at the University of California Riverside (UCR). He has worked in the Costa Chica Region of Mexico for over a decade. His primary research interests are in theorizing the relationships between race and citizenship and investigating the influence that regional discourses of race and racism have on citizenship practices and overall access to citizenship. He is the recipient of several awards, including the Fulbright Garcia Robles Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, and a University of California Chancellor鈥檚 Postdoctoral Fellowship.