Please join us for the 20th Annual Black Women's Conference honoring bell hooks

Finding Our Place: A Conference in Honor of the Work and Writings
of bell hooks

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20th Annual Black Women’s Conference: April 18-19, 2014

This year is the 20^th convening of the Annual Black Women’s Conference.  In its history, there are few subjects of interest and important to the lives of Black women the conference has not explored.  As we celebrate this important year of the conference, we turn our attention to the work of a native daughter of Kentucky and preeminent feminist and intellectual, bell hooks.  Over the course of her career, hooks has been a leading thinker on the complexity of the positions of black women in American society and politics.  hooks continues to challenge  us with her current work to be both creative and thoughtful about understanding and making our place. Join us in celebrating the work of this important scholar and two decades of gathering black women in community. - more info: https://aaas.as.uky.edu/black-womens-conference

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Emmett Till: Fuel for the Freedom Movement?

Greetings, Class Community.

We watched a documentary and discussed The Emmett Till Case of 1955.  There are a few questions I would like you to consider and discuss in our digital class space. 

Please respond to the following questions:

1. Do you recognize our discussions about the Black Belt South (presented by Prof. Marcus Bernard) being connected to the life, murder, and subsequent trial regarding Emmett Till? If so, what are those connections and how would you summarize the cause and effect relationship?

2.  Do you recognize our discussions about the miscegenation and 'racial purity' being connected to the life, murder, and subsequent trial regarding Emmett Till? If so, what are those connections and how would you summarize the cause and effect relationship of those terms and this event?

3.  How do you think 'new' technologies, such as the television, impacted the public reaction to the life, murder, and subsequent trial regarding Emmett Till? Please explain in a short paragraph of at least three sentences.

Dr. Hill

FYI - Black Girlhood Studies: African American, Gender, Creativity, Education Studies

Dr. Ruth Nicole Brown is releasing a new book on Black Girlhood Studies entitled Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black Girlhood.  This is an ideal book for any of you that might be interested in the intersections of gender studies, education, creativity and African American Studies.  Here is the book trailer. 

What do you think? 

The Impact of Intersectional Identity in Slave Communities

Study the Masters Lucille Clifton

like my aunt timmie.

it was her iron,

or one like hers,

that smoothed the sheets

the master poet slept on.

home or hotel, what matters is

he lay himself down on her handiwork

and dreamed. she dreamed too, words;

some cherokee, some masai and some

huge and particular as hope.

if you had heard her

chanting as she ironed

you would understand form and line

and discipline and order and

america.   

-  Callaloo 22.1 (1999) 54

Greetings, Class. 

Over the course, we have explored the ways gender differences may have impacted the experiences and choices of enslaved people.  Today, we explored those experiences more closely.  This poem helped us to unpack some of our discoveries.  

Consider how intersectional identity, being both Black/African and a woman, impacted the individual experiences of women in enslaved communities.  You may include examples from the The African American Odyssey or A Mercy.  Feel free to include links and additional resources as examples or helpful information. 

Yours truly, 

Dr. Hill

10 People You Probably Didn’t Know Were Black

10 People You Probably Didn’t Know Were Black by Laurie L. Dove

I did not know that many of the people in this article were "Black".  It is interesting that some of the facts from The African American Odyssey are very present in these short biographies.

Let me know what you think.  :)