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Third Black Heritage Trail Tea Talk to Focus on the “Myth of the Model Minority”

The Myth of the Model Minority will be the topic of the third program of the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire’s Elinor Williams Hooker Winter Tea Talk series on Sunday, February 20, 2022, from 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm. This is a hybrid program to be held both held in-person at Stokel Commons at the Portsmouth Middle School, and online. Registration is required. Asian Americans are often typecast as studious, successful, and smart. Although the terms are positive,…

2022 EWH TEA TALK SUGGESTED READING LIST

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Sunday, February 6, 2022 “Divisive Concepts:” A Chilling Effect on Teaching History HB 2, Sections 297-298 Full Text NH Attorney General, opinion-2021-01-hb2-anti-discrimination “We are committing educational malpractice’: Why slavery is mistaught — and worse — in American schools. By Nikita Stewart, August 19, 2019 Sunday, February 13 Absented Presence: “They All Died Off” and Other Myths About Native Americans A Brief History of Pre-Colonial New Hampshire ‘We Still Live Here’: Native Americans Affirm Their New Hampshire Roots Indigenous New Hampshire…

BHTNH 2022 Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talks Presenters Biographies

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Courageous Conversations: Leaning in for ChangePresenters Biographies Sunday, February 6, 2022“Divisive Concepts:” A Chilling Effect on Teaching HistoryNikita Stewart is an assistant editor for Metro at The New York Times and the author of Troop 6000: The Girl Scout Troop That Began in a Shelter and Inspired the World. She joined The Times in 2014 from The Washington Post.In 2020, the Newswomen’s Club of New York honored Nikita with the Ida B. Wells Award for Exceptional Coverage of Communities of Color. The organization…

Racism, Land & The American Farming Landscape

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Sunday, February 7, 2021 | 2:00 – 4:00 PM Racism, Land & The American Farming Landscape Presenters: Reginald Jackson, Emeritus Professor of Communications at Simmons College, MA Lydia Clemmons, President of Clemmons Family Farm, VT Jarrad Nwameme, Farmer & Author, Triple J Farms, NY Moderator: Meghan Howey, Professor in Anthropology, University of New Hampshire In 1920, there were 949,889 Black farmers. A century later, according to the 2017 Census of Agriculture, only 35,470 remained. This panel will investigate the contributing…

2021 EWH Tea Talk Readings

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2021 Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talk Suggested Readings, Book & Articles Sunday, February 7, 2021 Racism, Land & The American Farming Landscape CLEMMONS FAMILY FARM – What We Do ‘Make Farmers Black Again’_ Fighting Discrimination To Own Farmland _ NPR ttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/podcasts/1619-slavery-sugar-farm-land.html Podcast from the 1619 Project, The Land of Our Fathers Sunday, February 14, 2021 Writing While Black: The Afrofuturistic Writer …

2021 EWH Tea Talks Presenter Bios

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2021 Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talks Presenter Bios Panel #1, Racism, Land & The American Farming Landscape Dr. Reginald Jackson serves as a consultant to artists and scholars who are conducting visual and cultural research related to African retentions in the Americas. Dr. Jackson holds a Ph.D. in Visual Anthropology and Communications from Union Institute, an MFA and a BFA from Yale University, a MSW from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and an AAS degree from RIT…

Writing While Black: The Afrofuturistic Writer

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Sunday, February 14, 2021 | 2:00 – 4:00 PM Writing While Black: The Afrofuturistic Writer Presenters: Nisi Shawl, Author Reynaldo Anderson, Author Sheree Renée Thomas, Author (TBC) Moderator: Dennis Britton, Department of English, University of New Hampshire, NH In recent years, there has been an uptick, if not an actual surge, of works by science fiction writers of color, a literary genre where Black voices and characters have been historically absent. For writers of color the distinction between science fiction…

Race & Care of the Soul

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Sunday, February 21, 2021 | 2:00 – 4:00 PM Race & Care of the Soul Presenters: Thomas Moore, Author, Care of the Soul Reginald Wilburn, Department of English, University of New Hampshire, NH Moderator: Rev. Lauren Smith, Director of Stewardship and Development at the Unitarian Universalist Association Until the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020, few questioned the brutal hand of racism as orchestrated through police forces, our legal system, schools, workplaces and other institutions.…

It Happened In New Hampshire: Black History in the Granite State

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Sunday, February 28, 2021 | 2:00 – 4:00 PM It Happened In New Hampshire: Black History in the Granite State Presenters: Sharon Jones, Singer and Activist Renay Allen, Author Barbara Baker Williams, Reverse Freedom Rider Moderator: Senator David Watters The first enslaved African arrived in New Hampshire in 1645. There’s a long, rich Black history in the Granite State. Colonial New Hampshire newspapers testify to the state’s slave trade, runaways, abolitionists, and anti-abolitionist activities, followed by conflicting opinions about the…

The Power of Place: Martha’s Vineyard and the Growth of the Black Elite

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Sunday, March 7, 2021 | 2:00 – 4:00 PM The Power of Place: Martha’s Vineyard and the Growth of the Black Elite Panelists: Gretchen Sorin, Author Driving While Black; African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights. Joanne Dowdell, Senior Vice President Global Government Affairs at News Corp Loren Van Allen, A Member of the Shearer Family, owners of Shearer Cottage Moderator: Bithiah Carter, President & CEO, New England Blacks in Philanthropy For Black Americans traveling in the era…