The Overlooked Racism? Xenophobia Against East Europeans in Anti-racist and Postcolonial Debates in Germany
Racism against East Europeans has a long history dating back to the eighteenth century. It was particularly pronounced in Germany with its long-standing entanglements and quasi-colonial relationship with Eastern Europe. Even beyond 1945, structural discrimination and everyday humiliation exist.
Pitt's Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) hosts Working Group on Comparative Slavery in partnership with the Afro Latin American Research Institute at Harvard. For more information, please click here.
This session focuses on Diego Olstein's A Brief History of Now: The Past and Present of Global Power.
For more information and a Zoom link, please contact Niklas Frykman (niklas.frykman@pitt.edu) or Pernille Røge (per20@pitt.edu).
Co-sponsored by Pitt's Early Modern Worlds Initiative.
This session focuses on Michael Mann's The Sources of Social Power: Volume 2, The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760–1914.
For more information and a Zoom link, please contact Niklas Frykman (niklas.frykman@pitt.edu) or Pernille Røge (per20@pitt.edu)
Co-sponsored by Pitt's Early Modern Worlds Initiative.
This session focuses on Michael Mann's The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760.
For more information and a Zoom link, please contact Niklas Frykman (niklas.frykman@pitt.edu) or Pernille Røge (per20@pitt.edu).
Co-sponsored by Pitt's Early Modern Worlds Initiative.
The event will be taking place on November 12th, please mark your calendars and see schedule on link below.
Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this land, and the Native Americans whose holdings it originated from.
Join Harvard University political scientist and sociologist Theda Skocpol, Harvard University researcher Caroline Tervo, and Lara Putnam, professor and chair in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Department of History, as they discuss the surge in citizen participation that is reshaping political contests today across our region, our state, and our nation.