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The IHC African Studies Research Focus is an interdisciplinary group of faculty and graduate students with diverse research interests in African studies. Established in 1998, the group meets approximately two to three times a quarter to share ongoing research interests in African studies and to discuss relevant readings that engage with theories, epistemologies, and practices of African studies. Once a year, the group hosts an outside speaker addressing an issue relevant to the group’s discussion.

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Public Lecture: “Racialized Paths to Proletarianization: Myths about Black Economic Competition, Cheap Labor, and White Vulnerability”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Tiffany Willoughby-Herard (African American Studies, UC Irvine) The presentation discusses a key historiographical intervention about so-called "cheap labor" in WASTE OF A WHITE SKIN: THE CARNEGIE CORPORATION AND THE RACIAL LOGIC OF WHITE VULNERABILITY. What did calls for the protection of "civilized labor" and a "white wage" mean to the history of race and class […]

Probing “Presence”: Photography and Policing in Colonial South Africa

SSMS 2135 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

TALK: Lorena Rizzo (University of Bielefeld & Harvard University) Probing “Presence” – Photography and Policing in Colonial South Africa The presentation starts from research conducted in the Western Cape Archives in 2012/3. While working on a collection of photographic albums produced in a Cape Town convict station in the late 19th and early 20th century, […]

“The Journey: Domestic Violence Legislation in Ghana” by Prof. Akosua Adomako Ampofo

HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Daily, all over the world, women and children (especially) are abused by intimate partners and family members, friends and colleagues. While a legal infrastructure and legal responses will not end gender-based violence (GBV) and domestic violence (DV), they can provide reliefs for survivors of violence. They can serve as spaces from which GBV and DV […]

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