Food is a cultural artifact in the lives of Black people. But what happens when food is transformed into a weapon to oppress them? What happens when Black people in turn (re)weaponize food as a tool to emancipate themselves from such oppression? In this talk, Dr. Bobby J. Smith II grapples with...
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of African American Studies
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
The Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois,...
Candler Black Church Studies will welcome Dr. McKinnis as the 2023 Sankofa Scholar for a J-term course January 3-7, 2023. This seminar will deal with Black being within the context of existential absurdity and Black theology's response to such absurdity. The seminar will engage questions of...