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kid from northern New York, she’d studied abroad in Europe, but knew little about Africa or Islam. “My world view was very narrow,” she admitted. Mauritania expanded it, rapidly. “It was a fantastic experience,” she said, “which I benefited from way more than the people I was quote-unquote ‘helping.’” Wiley’s new book, Work, Social Status, and Gender in Post-Slavery Mauritania (Indiana University Press), is based on anthropological research she conducted on a return trip years later. It focuses on

question what everyone thinks is perfectly normal in the present. It should not surprise, then, that the ancient Hebrew story of the Exodus—of people experiencing liberation from an oppressive society—has sparked reform movements for hundreds of years: the movements to abolish slavery; to end child labor; to give women access to land, vote, and self-determination; to secure a living wage and decent life for farm workers; to free sexual minorities from dehumanizing stereotypes and discrimination. (Photo

Breonna Taylor in Louisville, and the ambush of Ahmaud Arbery in Satilla Shores, Georgia, are recent examples of a long history of anti-Black violence in the United States. Globally, we are witnessing international solidarity with Black Lives Matter as well as movements addressing various expressions of racism that have shaped the modern world system, including slavery and colonialism. The fact that current protests are taking place in the midst of a pandemic demonstrates their urgency; COVID-19 has

, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas spent nearly 21 hours in seven debates. The proposition was slavery, the stage was Illinois, and the voting population was their panel of judges. Lincoln scholar David Zarefsky explained the relevance and historical significance of the debates in “Lincoln, Douglas and Slavery” on May 14 in the final event of the 2015 School of Arts and Communication Focus Series on perspective. The event explored the capacity to master multiple perspectives, a central tenet of

, which she currently chairs. She also is a faculty affiliate in the Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies Program. At PLU she teaches a range of Holocaust related courses, such as The Holocaust in the American Literary Imagination, Anne Frank as Holocaust Icon, Sex, Gender, and Holocaust Literature, a senior seminar on History & Memory in US Slavery and Holocaust texts, and our foundational class, Introduction to Holocaust & Genocide Studies. She was recently selected to participate in the Jack and

, and other issues. The library has an additional 383 e-books and open access online books with subjects about women that were published from 2018 to 2023. We celebrate Women’s History Month by “commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history.” (https://www.womenshistorymonth.gov/). See the online version of this exhibit. Exhibit supported: The Center for Gender Equity and Gender, Race, and Sexuality Studies Curator: Holly Senn

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peoples. It also describes new ritual activities engaged by Kiowas, including a revitalization movement associated with armed resistance, affiliation with Christian churches, and ritual peyote ingestion. The examples show how frontier contact resulted in religious change for everyone involved. Biography: Jennifer Graber is Professor of Religious Studies and an affiliated faculty member in the Native American and Indigenous Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. in