Duke University African and African American Studies

Thomas F. DeFrantz: ‘Not Just Dance’

    • thomasdefrantz
DURHAM, NC - Dancing is not just a fun way to spend Saturday night. It's also a rigorous academic discipline. Thomas F. DeFrantz, a Duke University professor of African and African American studies and dance, is an expert on how African American dances have evolved to reshape our world,…
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Hearing Trayvon Die

by Mark Anthony Neal | NewBlackMan There is dramatic moment in the film Cadillac Records, when musician Muddy Waters, portrayed by Jeffrey Wright, has just watched the body of fellow musician Little Walter (Columbus Short) taken away to the morgue. Little Walter was more than Waters’ wingman—he was critical to…
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March 23: Roundtable on Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation by Rebecca Scott and Jean Hébrard

    • scott hebrard
Join us on March 23rd for a Roundtable on Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation by Rebecca Scott and Jean Hébrard. This deeply researched and riveting new book tells the story of generations of a family in the Atlantic World, from West Africa to Haiti and…
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Left of Black S2:E21| The Race-ing and Un-Race-ing of Tiger Woods and Contemporary Black Poetry with Orin Starn, Thabiti Lewis and Darrell Stover

Left of Black S2:E21 | February 27, 2012 The Race-ing and Un-Race-ing of Tiger Woods and Contemporary Black Poetry Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by Duke University Professor Orin Starn and via Skype© by Professor Thabiti Lewis (Washington State, Vancouver). Authors of The…
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"Performance and Social Justice" presented by: Choreographer Ananya Chatterjea

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1:15pm-2:30pm; Duke Dance Laboratory, 1516 Hull Avenue, rear, Durham; free and open to the public SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology, in residence at Duke University, and the Duke Dance program announce a guest lecture by Dr. Ananya Chatterjea, a dancer, choreographer, scholar and educator who envisions her dance work as a "call…
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Redefining Black Power and Re-Thinking Black Male Achievement on the February 20th 'Left of Black'

Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by journalist Joanne Griffith, editor of the new book Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America (City Lights). Griffith discusses the observations of several of the book’s contributors including historian Vincent Harding, Professor Michele…
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Left of Black S2:E19 | A History of Haiti and the Legacy of Violence in Jamaica with Laurent Dubois and Deborah Thomas

Left of Black S2:E19 | February 13, 2012 A History of Haiti and the Legacy of Violence in Jamaica with Laurent Dubois and Deborah Thomas Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio byLaurent Dubois, the Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke…
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Lula WASHINGTON, choreographer of hit film AVATAR (2009) to speak at DUKE February 22, 2012

    • Lula Washington
1:15pm-2:30pm; Duke Dance Laboratory, 1516 Hull Avenue, rear, Durham; free and open to the public SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology, in residence at Duke University, and the Duke Dance program announce a guest lecture by Lula Washington, Founder and Artistic Director of the Lula Washington Dance Theatre and choreographer of the smash…
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Achievement Gap at Duke: Investigating the Factors Influencing the Academic Performance of Black Students

Senior Distinction Project by Dayo Oshilaja April 22, 2011 Download full paper here:
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 Books by AAAS Faculty

    • That's the Joint
    • privatebodies
    • Stephen Smith
    • lee's book
    • charlie's book
    • Sex and the empire that is no more
    • Routes of Remembrance
    • Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century
    • Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination
    • Out of The House of Bondage
    • Negotiating Caribbean Freedom
    • Songs in the Key of Black Life
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