American Studies Center Aarhus



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Racism, Science and African-American Studies



Thursday 8 October 1998

University of Aarhus


Program



09.30- 11.00 Film Screening: Ethnic Notions (60 minute documentary)

Mødelokale 1, Studenternes Hus

   
11.00 - 12.00 Guest Lecture: Professor Patrick Miller (Northeastern Illinois University), 'The Anatomy of Scientific Racism: From The Bell Curve to the Basketball Arena'

Mødelokale 1, Studenternes Hus

   
12.00 - 14.00 Lunch
   
14.00 - 16.00 Staff/Student Workshop: 'African-American Studies in Historical Perspective'

Room 319, Building 326; Department of English

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Preparatory Readings

Guest Lecture: Patrick B. Miller, 'The Anatomy of Scientific Racism: Racialist Responses to Black Athletic Achievement, Journal of Sport History, 25, 1 (Spring, 1998).
 
Staff/Student Workshop: Thomas C. Holt, 'African-American History,' in Eric Foner (ed), The New American History (1987).

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Faculty

Patrick Miller is an associate professor at the Department of History, Northeastern Illinois University, and during the 1998/1999 academic year is a Visiting Fulbright Professor at the Department of English, Westfälische Wilhelms University, Münster, Germany. He holds degrees from Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of The Playing Fields of American Culture: Athletics and Higher Education, 1850-1945 (forthcoming from Oxford University Press) and (with David Wiggins) The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport (forthcoming from Illinois University Press). His research interests include African-American history and race relations, the history of sports, and US social and cultural history.



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