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Sabrina Smith, assistant professor of Latin American history published the article, “Slavery and the African Diaspora in Spanish America” in the Oxford Encyclopedia on African History. Read the article here.

 

 

HIST 195 students traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico, to conduct archival research on the Movement of African-descended people in Mexico with Dr. Sabrina Smith. Read more here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Exploring Frontiers in Africanist Research Across the University of California"

 

Dr. Daniel Thompson is an Assistant Professor at UC Merced with the Anthropology & Heritage Studies Program. His presentation, "The Border as Temporal Horizon: A Borderlands Massacre, Urban Speculation, and the Contested Future in Ethiopia's Somali Region," took place at UC Berkeley's Center for Middle Eastern Studies on Thursday, March 11, 2024. Read more here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fall 2023 CAS Conference Travel Grant Awardees

 

We are pleased to announce the Fall 2023 CAS Conference Travel Grant awardees. Read more here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sabrina Smith, assistant professor of Latin American history published the article, “African-Descended Women: Power and Social Status in Colonial Oaxaca,” which explores how a propertied mulata named Catalina de los Reyes changed the landscape of a Spanish colonial city. Read more here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nicosia Shakes on Black Women’s Activist Theater

October 5, 2023

Nicosia Shakes, assistant professor in the Department of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, specializes in African Diasporic theatre, performance, popular culture, gender, sexuality, and activism. In episode 156 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews Shakes, whose creative and scholarly work celebrates the intertwining of political activism and performance across the African diaspora. Read more here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

According to Kevin Dawson, associate professor of history at UC Merced and scholar on the history of aquatics in the African Diaspora, swimming and a relationship with the water was a strong current through enslaved Africans’ way of life. Read more here.