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She concentrates on the "non-history" of the slave, the manner in which slavery "erased any conventional modality for writing an intelligible past". [5] By weaving her own biography into a historical construction, "she [also] explores and evokes the non-spaces of black experience—the experience through which the African captive became a slave ...
An academic inquiry into its slavery history, the Lemon Project, is underway. [104] Between 1760 and 1765, the Prince George House may have been used by English philanthropists, the Associates of Dr. Bray (named for Thomas Bray), to Christianize and educate local enslaved and free black children.
The Dunning School was a historiographical school of thought regarding the Reconstruction period of American history (1865–1877), supporting conservative elements against the Radical Republicans who introduced civil rights in the South. It was named for Columbia University professor William Archibald Dunning, who taught many of its followers.
Columbia University will acknowledge its ties to slavery and racism by adding historical markers to four residence halls. As reported The post Columbia University acknowledges ties to slavery, KKK ...
Fields was the first African American woman to earn tenure at Columbia University. She has also taught at Northwestern University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Mississippi. She is widely known for her 1990 essay, "Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America."
Manisha Sinha is an Indian-born American historian, and the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. [1] She is the author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition (2016), which won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize.
A cohort of gray-haired uptown residents are suing Columbia University over the closure of its “College Walk,” a stretch of quad space on its Morningside Heights campus cut off to...
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