Featured series 
Tag: African and African American Studies
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Campus & Community
Becoming her fullest self
Sarah Lewis ’97 talks to the Gazette about returning to Harvard to join the faculty of the History of Art and Architecture.
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Arts & Culture
Curating a visual record
Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, assistant professor of the history of art and architecture and African and African-American studies, guest edited the magazine Aperture, producing an issue called “Vision & Justice,” the first on African-Americans, race, and photography for the magazine.
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Arts & Culture
In anti-lynching plays, a coiled power
Magdalene “Maggie” Zier turned her senior thesis about anti-lynching plays into a live performance at Harvard Law School.
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Nation & World
A bleak, troubling history
Laurence Ralph, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Departments of Anthropology and African and African American Studies, will give a talk on the history of police violence in the United States.
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Arts & Culture
Spotlight on black identity
A new take on Black History Month at Harvard initiates a conversation about evolving black identity, through the lenses of Africa and art history.
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Arts & Culture
The dark side of chocolate
Exploring the sweet and dark sides of chocolate, a new course examines the history and food politics of the beloved treat.
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Nation & World
Justice for Kenya’s Mau Mau
As a human rights group seeks justice for veterans of an anticolonialist rebellion, a Harvard historian helps to make the case.
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Nation & World
To catch a killer
The field of genomics, after revolutionizing crime fighting through DNA testing, is likely to shake the political landscape, says Jennifer Hochschild, who is researching its implications in Washington, D.C.
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Science & Tech
‘One-drop rule’ persists
Harvard psychologists have found that the centuries-old “one-drop rule” assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of people like Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, and Halle Berry.
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Arts & Culture
Learning the streets, scene by scene
The acclaimed TV series “The Wire” is at the center of “HBO’s The Wire and Its Contribution to Understanding Urban Inequality,” a new course aimed at teaching Harvard undergraduates about inner-city life.
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Campus & Community
Carpio rising
Worlds of poverty and wealth, constraint and liberation, bring literary scholar Glenda R. Carpio to Harvard stardom.
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Campus & Community
Carpio, Frank are named Abramson winners for excellence in teaching
Glenda Carpio, assistant professor of African and African-American studies and of English and American literature and language, and Alison Frank, assistant professor of history, are this year’s winners of the Roslyn Abramson Award, given to junior faculty for excellence in undergraduate teaching.