A small town in the heart of America’s Bible Belt grapples with rapidly changing demographics. Longtime African-American and white residents work to build a sense of community with a growing Latino population and with hundreds of new Muslim refugees from Somalia. Continue Reading
The Ashland Public Library will host a presentation by Marwa Ghazali, an anthropology PhD student at the University of Kansas who wrote her master’s thesis on the Bantu Somali of Kansas City. The presentation will take place at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 28th.
A small town in the heart of America’s Bible Belt grapples with rapidly changing demographics. Longtime African-American and white residents work to build a sense of community with a growing Latino population and with hundreds of new Muslim refugees from Somalia. Continue Reading
Aminatta Forna is the award-winning author of the three novels: The Hired Man, The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones, and a critically-acclaimed memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water. She is currently a Lannan Visiting Chair at Georgetown University.
Elizabeth MacGonagle and Marwa Ghazali respond to the failed plot to bomb a Somali-American community in Garden City, Kansas. Their editorial in the Huffington Post suggests that Garden City has a lot to teach the rest of America about community building.
Donnelly College will host “African Refugee Stories –and Silence –in Kansas,” a presentation by Marwa Ghazali, an anthropology PhD student at the University of Kansas who wrote her master’s thesis on the Bantu Somali of Kansas City. The presentation will take place 10:40-11:40 a.m. on Thursday, November 3rd.
Make sure to go see Tanya Hartman’s exhibition When a Stranger Sojourns in Your Land at Studios Inc in Kansas City. The exhibition runs through October 14th.
She describes the work as “an installation of glazed, earthenware letters (with gold leaf) that spell a phrase from the Book of Leviticus in the Old Testament that admonishes human beings to be welcoming to refugees and to the dispossessed.”
There will be a free film screening and discussion of the film Welcome to Shelbyville on Monday, September 19th at 7 pm at the Lawrence Public Library. Dicsussants will include Jennifer Ng (Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies), Cecilia Menjivar (Foundation Distinguished Professor of Sociology) and Alex Vilagram (Junior in Political Science).
Welcome to Shelbyville depicts a small town in the heart of America’s Bible Belt as it grapples with rapidly changing demographics in this hour-long documentary. Longtime African American and white residents are challenged with how best to integrate with a growing Latino population and the more recent arrival of hundreds of Muslim Somali refugees.
Sponsored by the Kansas African Studies Center, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Langston Hughes Center, Department of African & African American Studies, and the Lawrence Public Library.
Tune in to #HighlightsonHealth on KPRT 1590 AM from 12:30-1:00 p.m tomorrow (Thursday, July 14) to hear Bob Tryanski and Tanya Hartman discuss their portions of the Migration Stories project! Thanks to Rodgers Health for having them!
The public forum drew a large audience with discussions of immigration that provided a firm foundation for the project.
KU’s Migration Stories featured on KCUR’s Central Standard to raise public awareness of the upcoming forum at the Unity Temple on the Plaza.
On May 9, 2016 a public forum will be held simultaneously at the Unity Temple on the Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri and Garden City, Kansas.