Tag: derrick spires
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The Academic Minute for 2020.12.07-2020.12.11
The Academic Minute from 12.07 – 12.11 Monday, December 7th Naminata Diabate – Cornell University Naked Agency Naminata Diabate is an associate professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. A native of Côte d’Ivoire in West Africa, Naminata Diabate is a scholar of African and African diaspora studies with an emphasis on questions of sexuality and gender…
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Derrick Spires, Cornell University – Antebellum Social Media
On Cornell University Week: Was there social media in the 1830’s? Derrick Spires, associate professor of English, determines how Black voices communicated. Derrick R. Spires is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University. He specializes in early African American and American print culture, citizenship studies, and African American intellectual history. His first book, The Practice…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2020.12.07)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2020.12.07 Monday, December 7th Naminata Diabate, associate professor of comparative literature, explores a different kind of protest is happening in public. Tuesday, December 8th Derrick Spires, associate professor of English, determines how Black voices communicated through antebellum social media in the 1830s. Wednesday, December 9th Daniel Gallagher, senior lecturer, makes…