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History of Capitalism Reading Group: What are the real causes of racial wealth inequality?

History of Capitalism reading group: This special edition of our group will host a group discussion to which the university community is invited. What are the real causes of racial wealth inequality?  Find out at the History Book Club, History of Capitalism Edition Mehrsa Baradaran, Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and J. Alton Hosch Associate Professor of Law, UGA will discuss her book The Color of Money: Black Banks and…


History of Capitalism Reading Group

Our first meeting of the semester will be Friday, February 16 at The Globe. Come to read and discuss the theory and history of capitalism from a critical perspective. We will be reading three essays on the relationship between race, class and capital. • “Black Particularity Reconsidered,” Adolph Reed, Jr. • “Gramsci’s Black Marx: Whither the Slave in Civil Society?,” Frank B Wilderson III   • “Whiteness, Racism and Identity,”…


Black History Month Book Club II : "Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America"

In honor of Black History Month, the History Department is hosting two book clubs. The second book club will focus on Martha Jones's Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America. Not yet published, students who sign up for this seminar will receive a free copy of a manuscript draft of Jones’s work and will get an in-depth look of how history books are researched, written, and published. Moderator: Kate Dahlstrand. To…


History Graduate student meet & greet w/ candidate

Graduate students in the history department are invited to meet informally with our search candidates in modern East Asian history.


History Graduate student meet & greet w/ candidate

Graduate students in the history department are invited to meet informally with our search candidates in modern East Asian history.


History Graduate student meet & greet w/ candidate

Graduate students in the history department are invited to meet informally with our search candidates in modern East Asian history.


History Graduate student meet & greet w/ candidate

Graduate students in the history department are invited to meet informally with our search candidates in modern East Asian history.


Natasha Lightfoot (Columbia U, New York) history lecture

Natasha Lightfoot, associate professor, Columbia University, will give a talk on the subject of her new book: Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015). Lightfoot secializes in slavery and emancipation studies, and black identities, politics, and cultures in the fields of Caribbean, Atlantic World, and African Diaspora History. Her  book focuses on black working class…


HGSA Coffee and Donuts

HGSA Coffee and Donuts social in the conference room. For Graduate History students!  


Lunchtime Time Machine: "Why did so many crossdressers fight in the American Civil War?"

Each year the history department holds a graduate student competition in which current graduate students have just a few minutes to explain an interesting historical topic they would like to present as a guest lecturer in our Lunchtime Time Machine series. The audience votes for the best-represented lecture they would most like to hear. This year's winner and guest lecturer is Kate Dahlstrand. Dahlstrand will be giving her Lunchtime Time Machine…
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