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“Being Italian: The Peculiar Journey of Blackness,” by Professor of Africana Studies Heather Merrill, was recently published online in Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography.
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In observation of Black History Month, Professor of Africana Studies Heather Merrill shared this perspective about the course “Racism and Anti-racism” and the students who took it.
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Professor of Africana Studies Heather Merrill gave a lecture titled “Being Italian: The Peculiar Journey of Blackness” to an international audience of students and faculty connected with the School or Architecture at Syracuse University, Florence on Sept. 9.
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Professor of Africana Studies Heather Merrill recently gave a talk about anti-blackness in Italy as part of the USC “Black Lives Matter Beyond Borders” lecture series.
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Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Chair - International Affairs and Professor of Government; Assistant Professor of Physics Kate Brown; Assistant Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas; Professor of Africana Studies Heather Merrill; Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Jane Springer; and Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner were honored.
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Black Spaces: African Diaspora in Italy, by Professor of Africana Studies Heather Merrill, was recently published by Routledge.
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Professor of Africana Studies Heather Merrill's Africa in Diaspora class along with other Africana studies concentrators and students traveled to the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 11.
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Professor of Africana Studies Heather Merrill served as a discussant for a session and also co-organized and co-chaired a panel discussion at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) held March 28-April 1 in San Francisco.
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Professor of Africana Studies Heather Merrill published an article titled “In Other Wor(l)ds: Situated Intersectionality in Italy” in her co-edited volume Spaces of Danger: Culture and Power in the Everyday. The volume is part of the series “Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation” published by the University of Georgia Press.
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An essay published in The Chronicle of Higher Education titled “What Black Campus Activists Can Learn From the Freedom Summer of 1964” by Professors of Africana Studies and Heather Merrill and Donald Carter compared transformational strategies employed by students in 1964 with those pursued by students today. In the Feb. 1 commentary, the authors noted that the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee that led the Mississippi Summer Project was built through patience and compassion.
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