Discussing Slavery: Conferences, Articles, Book Reviews, Translations
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Istoria ca poveste: Life of a Klansman (2020) – Recenzie de carte
Titlu complet: Istoria ca poveste, istoria ca poveste a mea/ a familiei mele: Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy (2020) – Recenzie de carte Carte recenzată: Edward Ball: Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 4, 2020, 416 pp, Kindle version, $13.64 [Viaţa…
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History as Story, History as My (Family’s) Story: Life of a Klansman(2020) – Book Review
Full title: History as Story, History as My (Family’s) Story: Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy (2020) – Book Review Book Reviewed: Edward Ball: Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 4, 2020, 416 pp, Kindle version, $13.64 Life of a Klansman: A…
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Dr. Chike Akua răspunde la întrebarea: “Ce înseamnă să fii Negru?”
Este februarie, Luna Istoriei Negrilor, şi am avut plăcerea, pe 4 februarie, să asist la acest curs pe Zoom, un curs foarte îndrăzneţ şi provocator, unul dintre multele cursuri oferite de Black History Nerds Saturday School (Şcoala de Sâmbătă pentru Tocilarii Istoriei Negrilor). Primul lucru care îmi vine în minte, ca persoană albă, ca cercetător…
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Dr. Chike Akua Answers the Question: “What Does It Mean To Be Black?”
It is February, the Black History Month, and I had the pleasure, on February 4, to attend this very daring and thought-provoking Zoom lecture, one of the many lectures offered by the Black History Nerds Saturday School. What first comes to my mind, as a white person, as a white, non-American researcher, when hearing such…
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Proclamaţia de Emancipare a lui Abraham Lincoln: trei perspective
Unul dintre cele mai importante momente din istoria Americii este ziua de 1 ianuarie 1863, dată la care a intrat în vigoare Proclamaţia de Emancipare, emisă de Preşedintele Abraham Lincoln la 22 septembrie 1862. Aceasta elibera toţi sclavii din statele sudice / Confederate, care luptau împotriva Nordului în Războiul Civil (aprilie 1861-aprilie 1865). Atât Preşedintele…
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Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: Three Perspectives
One of the most important moments in the history of America is the day of January 1, 1863, the day when President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, first issued on September 22, 1862, became effective. This Proclamation freed all slaves in the Southern/ Confederate States that were fighting against the North during the American Civil War (April…
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Profesorul Matthew WARSHAUER -Lincoln, Proclamaţia de Emancipare şi al 13-lea Amendament
Profesorul Matthew Warshauer (Central Connecticut State University) ne spune că Lincoln nu era aboliţionist, şi nu era aboliţionist nici Partidul său Republican. Partidul era doar anti-Sudişti, doar o mică parte dintre membri partidului fiind anti-sclavie. Şi Lincoln, Republican moderat, şi Partidul său, erau împotriva extinderii sclaviei spre teritoriile din vest. El a emis Proclamaţia de…
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Professor Matthew Warshauer on Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the 13th Amendment
Professor Matthew Warshauer (Central Connecticut State University) tells us how Lincoln was not an abolitionist, and neither was his Republican Party. The Party was only anti-Southern, with only a small fraction actually being anti-slavery. Both Lincoln, a moderate Republican, and his party were against slavery expansion in the western territories. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation…
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Kimberly J. ROBINSON – Sclavia ca sistem de analfabetism impus
Conferinţa: Teaching Race and Slavery in the American Classroom – Gilder Lehrman Center 2022 Annual Conference [Cum predăm noţiunile de ‘rasă’ şi de ‘sclavie’ în sălile de curs americane (2022) Masă rotundă – concluzii: Why Do We Teach US History? [De ce predăm istoria SUA?]) Cărţi recomandate: Heather Andrea Williams > Self-Taught: African American Education…
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Kimberly J. ROBINSON – Slavery as a System of Compulsory Ignorance
Conference: Teaching Race & Slavery in the American Classroom – Gilder Lehrman Center 2022 Annual Conference Concluding roundtable: Why Do We Teach US History? Books recommended: Heather Andrea Williams > Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture); and David Walker’s Appeal *We have…
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