Guest: Daina Ramey Berry is the Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor of History and Chairperson of the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a Fellow of the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and the George W. Littlefield Professorship in American History, and the former Associate Dean of The Graduate […]
15 Minute History – The Racial Geography Tour at U.T. Austin
Guest: Edmund T. Gordon, Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies & Vice Provost for Diversity at the University of Texas at Austin Host: Joan Neuberger, Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin For almost two decades, Edmund (Ted) Gordon has been leading tours of UT Austin that show how racism, patriarchy, and […]
IHS Book Talk: History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000
The History Faculty New Book Series presents: History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000(University of Washington Press, 2019) A book talk and discussion withSUMIT GUHAProfessor of HistoryThe University of Texas at Austinhttps://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/profile.php?eid=sg7967 With discussant:ANUPAMA RAOTOW Associate Professor of History,Barnard College and Columbia Universityhttps://history.barnard.edu/profiles/anupama-rao In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, […]
Latin American and Caribbean History: Collected Works from Not Even Past
Since its creation in 2010, Not Even Past has published a huge range of articles connected to Latin American and Caribbean History. To mark our new partnership with the Benson Latin American Collection, we have collected all these articles in one compilation page organized around 17 topics. These articles (156 in total) are a testament […]
Review of Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil (2011)
By Gabrielle Esparza Alberto, Paulina L. Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. In Terms of Inclusion, Paulina Alberto traces the history of Black activism and thought in twentieth-century Brazil. She focuses on the urban centers of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Salvador da […]
A Black Jurist in a Slave Society: Antonio Pereira Rebouças and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship, translated by Kristin M. McGuire (2019)
by Rodrigo Salido Moulinié Like Borges, he spent his last years in a strange solitude: blind, dictating his last words. A life split between the practice of law and politics in nineteenth-century Brazil ended with a taste of failure and defeat—yet a life worth revisiting. Antonio Pereira Rebouças, the youngest child of nine, was born in […]
The Myth and the Massacre: A Murder on Brazil’s Black Consciousness Day
By Marcelo José Domingos Brazil’s Black Consciousness Day (November 20th) was traumatic in 2020. Amid the devastating effects of COVID-19, in which more than 169,000 people have died, Brazilian citizens awoke to news of a racially-motivated murder. João Alberto Silveira Freitas, a 40 year old Black man, went to a supermarket with his wife in […]
Massive Data and Digital History: Teaching with Mark Ravina
In Spring 2020, Professor Mark Ravina introduced a new variant on the highly successful, HIS 320W • Thinking Like A Historian. He describes the course as follows: Historians use a range of analytical skills and our discipline, like the rest of the world, is entering the age of big data. In this class we will […]
IHS Climate in Context: How Do Pandemics End? History Suggests Diseases Fade But Are Almost Never Truly Gone
by Nükhet Varlik This article originally appeared in The Conversation. It can be seen here. The article is republished here in connection with Dr Varlik’s talk in the Institute for Historical Studies. When will the pandemic end? All these months in, with over 37 million COVID-19 cases and more than 1 million deaths globally, you may be […]
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones (2020)
by Tiana Wilson As we rapidly approach the 2020 US presidential election, Kamala Harris’ acceptance of the Democratic party’s nomination for Vice President offers great hope to a variety of marginalized communities who have been historically underrepresented in the national political arena. Harris, who identifies as a Black woman, is the daughter of Indian and […]