Archive: Barbara Montano


  • Remarks by Lia Bascomb, Celebrating the Life of Robert Allen

    November 13, 2024

    Celebrating the Life of Robert Allen October 2, 2024 By Lia Bascomb Robert Lee Allen was lovely to me. He was certainly the calmest revolutionary I ever met. My first association with The Black Scholar was publishing in it, an experience wholly started by Dr. Allen. After a traumatic, but ultimately successful QE experience, it was Robert that helped me find my confidence again. JFinley and I were his GSIs for 5B, and he asked us each to do a guest lecture based on our own work. Then he asked me to review one of his articles. Then he asked…

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  • Remarks by Janet Carter, Celebrating the Life of Robert Allen

    November 12, 2024

    Celebrating the Life of Robert Allen October 2, 2024 Remarks by Janet Carter, ex wife and dear friend  I first met Robert when he was on the Board of the Oakland Men’s Project, a group in Oakland working with men to educate young men and boys about violence against women.  I couldn’t believe my eyes, or my heart. Here was this gorgeous, dimpled, well-read, smart, accomplished, empathetic, introspective man with acute intuitive intellect, who was a social justice warrior with a sense of humor and adventure, and one of only a few men in the country dedicating himself to ending violence…

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  • Robert Allen and The Black Scholar: A Tribute

    November 12, 2024

    Robert Allen and The Black Scholar: A Tribute By Laura Chrisman Robert Allen’s life with The Black Scholar began in February, 1972, when his first article for the journal came into print. He was 29 years old. By September of that year, he had not only become Associate Editor of the journal, but had also been elected Vice-President of the Black World Foundation,–the non-profit that published and governed the journal. And by late December that same year, he, as member of the Venceremos Brigade, introduced my father to Cuba, having organized a three-week tour that was to be a formative,…

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  • Darieck Scott’s The Dream Slaves Published with Punctum Books

    November 12, 2024

    By Livy Onalee Snyder, Punctum Books, Associate Director for Community and Library Outreach Darieck Scott’s The Dream-Slaves is a queer, science fiction odyssey that pulses with themes of liberation, identity, and survival amid dystopian forces. Published by Punctum Books in September 2024, Scott’s novel transports readers to Norio—a city where reality and magic blur, and the boundaries of humanity itself are contested. The Dream-Slaves is now available for review, and we hope you’ll consider diving into this immersive, thought-provoking journey. The Dream-Slaves depicts a world where only memories remain of a dead universe, survival means navigating an empire ruled by those who…

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  • Professor Stephen Small to Retire December 2024

    October 15, 2024

    Written by Deborah Freedman Lustig, Associate Director of Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI) Join us for a retirement celebration on November 20th!  Stephen Small, Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies (AAS) and Director of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI), is retiring in December 2024 after 30 years as a faculty member at UC Berkeley. Born and raised in Liverpool, England, Professor Small came to Berkeley in 1984 as a graduate student in Sociology, where he became a graduate student trainee at the Institute for the Study of Social Change, now ISSI.…

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  • Department Welcomes Henry Washington Jr.

    August 29, 2024

    August 29, 2024 African American Studies is excited to welcome our newest addition to the faculty, Assistant Professor Henry Washington Jr.! Professor Washington was previously an Assistant Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University. We recently sat down with him to learn more about his work and ideas for his new role:  What does your research focus on? My research interests are pretty wide-ranging, but everything I write shares a curiosity about how racial and sexual difference is manufactured by systems of oppressive power to service their aims, as well as how racial and sexual minorities relate…

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  • A Tribute to Journalist, Scholar and Selfless Civil Rights Activist, Dr. Robert L. Allen – May 29, 1942-July 10, 2024

    July 25, 2024

    A Tribute to Journalist, Scholar and Selfless Civil Rights Activist, Dr. Robert L. Allen – May 29, 1942-July 10, 2024 By Daphne Muse “A North Star for how I make my way through the world” – Former student and Co-founder of Art Aids Art, Dorothy Yumi Garcia (Mills College, 1979). After decades of appeals for official pardons to exonerate the 50 Black sailors charged with the 1944 mutiny at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine on the shores of Suisan Bay in Port Chicago, Contra Costa County, Northern California, the long-overdue official exoneration of 256 Black sailors was issued by Secretary…

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  • Berkeley Talks: Reconsidering Black America’s relationship to the plantation

    June 28, 2024

    From UC Berkeley Public Affairs:  Berkeley Talks: Reconsidering Black America’s relationship to the plantation By Public Affairs June 28, 2024 Follow Berkeley Talks, a Berkeley News podcast that features lectures and conversations at UC Berkeley. See all Berkeley Talks.   Alisha Gaines, a professor of English at Florida State University, gave a talk, “Children of the Plantationocene,” at UC Berkeley in April. Gaines is the first scholar-in-residence of Berkeley’s Banned Book Project.Courtesy of Alisha Gaines In Berkeley Talks episode 203, Alisha Gaines, a professor of English and an affiliate faculty member in African American studies at Florida State University, discusses why it’s important for Black America to “excavate and reconsider”…

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  • Lecturer Amlaku B. Eshetie Interviewed by VOA Amharic

    June 28, 2024

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  • Public Humanities Virtual Pre-Conference Recordings

    May 13, 2024

    From the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes:  Thank you for joining these events, and recordings are now available for the two events featuring the Public Humanities Journal and the Black Studies Collaboratory. The CHCI Public Humanities Network will host three virtual events prior to the 2024 Annual Meeting. Please join, whether or not you are registered for the Annual Meeting itself. Monday, May 13, 11 am PDT/2 pm EDT: Conversation with editors-in-chief Jeff Wilson and Zoe Bulaitis about the new journal, Public Humanities (Recording, Youtube) Tuesday, May 14, 11 am PDT/2 pm EDT: Conversation with Barbara Montano and Tianna Paschel about…

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