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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150729
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150731
SUMMARY:Workshop: Race Capital? Harlem as Setting and Symbol: An Interdis
 ciplinary Project
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DESCRIPTION:The shifting demographic\, physical\, and commercial profile 
 of Harlem\, New York\, has prompted a surge of media coverage in recent 
 years. Much of this coverage has contended that gentrification spells th
 e end for the neighborhood as the epicenter of black political and cultu
 ral life in the United States\, and even in the black diaspora or “Black
  World.” \n\nWith funding from Cities@Manchester\, and support from Colu
 mbia University\, this project aims to subject these notions of Harlem’s
  exceptionalism\, and its complex symbolism\, to sustained examination. 
 Rarely have scholars asked why Harlem came to acquire a reputation as an
  exceptional site of black life\, or if\, when\, and how it has merited 
 its multitude of labels. In order to do this the project brings together
  leading scholars of Harlem’s history and culture from across the humani
 ties\, and from across three continents. These include: Martha Biondi (N
 orthwestern)\, Themis Chronopoulos (UEA)\, Clare Corbould (Monash)\, Jac
 ob Dorman (Kansas)\, John L. Jackson (UPenn)\, Winston James (UC-Irvine)
 \, Minkah Makalani (Texas)\, Paula Massood (Brooklyn-CUNY)\, Kevin Mumfo
 rd (Illinois)\, Cheryl Wall (Rutgers)\, Shane White (Sydney)\, in additi
 on to the project’s two conveners\, Daniel Matlin (King’s\, London)\, an
 d Andrew Fearnley (Manchester). These scholars will meet at Columbia Uni
 versity’s Institute for Research in African American Studies\, in New Yo
 rk\, on July 29th and 30th. \n\nThis two-day workshop\, and the collecti
 on of essays that will result from it\, will be organized into three sec
 tions: mythologies\, models\, and black no more? Contributors to ‘Mythol
 ogies’\, including Jacob Dorman\, Clare Corbould\, Andrew Fearnley\, Pau
 la Massood\, and Daniel Matlin\, will\, in their different ways\, seek t
 o establish the reasons why\, and the means by which\, notions of Harlem
  as a “race capital” and an exceptional locus of black life were produce
 d and reproduced over the course of the twentieth century. The workshop’
 s second section\, entitled “Models\,” will feature papers by Winston Ja
 mes\, Cheryl Wall\, Kevin Mumford\, Minkah Makalani\, and Martha Biondi.
  Each of these scholars will offer papers that will model new ways of wr
 iting Harlem’s history that foregrounds the neighborhood’s interconnecte
 dness and characterize its distinctiveness and significance without reco
 urse to casual assertions of Harlem’s exceptionalism. Finally\, the two 
 contributors to the third theme\, Themis Chronopoulos and John L. Jackso
 n\, will examine recent transformations in Harlem’s real estate and demo
 graphy that have simultaneously amplified claims about the neighborhood 
 as “race capital” and called the present and future of that status into 
 question. \n
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Columbia University\, Institute for Research in African American
  Studies\, New York\, NY
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