Featured Grants

September 2011

$18,512 Major Grant awarded to Brooklyn Historical Society’s “Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations: A study of Mixed-Heritage Families in Brooklyn.”

“Does your family, relationship, or identity cross borders of race, ethnicity, or culture?

We’re learning more about Brooklyn’s overlapping, interweaving communities.” Home to 93 ethnic groups, Brooklyn is a diverse community filled with culture. Beginning in April 2011, the Brooklyn Historical Society has held a variety of public conversations about mixed-heritage families, race, ethnicity, culture, and identity. These discussions are designed to open up a regional and national dialogue about how Americans think about their own race and culture within a family context, and how the public regards social constructions of ethnicity and community, changes in immigration and citizenship laws, and changes in marriage and partnership laws.

On September 26th, the topic of the discussion is “What Are You? Mixed-Heritage Brooklyn,” co-sponsored by Loving Day, a global network fighting racial prejudice through education and building multicultural community. This conversation will be facilitated by Jen Chau of Swirl, a multi-ethnic, anti-racist organization that promotes cross-cultural dialogue..

These panel discussions are part of a larger initiative that includes an interactive website, oral histories collected between 1973 and the present, a historic timeline and scholarly commentary.

Visit brooklynhistory.org/cbbg for a full list of upcoming events, or contribute to the conversation on Twitter using #cbbg.

 

$2,500 Mini Grant awarded to CUNY Graduate Center, American Social History Project for “Still Hazy After All These Years”

To mark the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the U.S. Civil War, the American Social History Project in collaboration with the Ph.D. Program in History has organized a series of three public programs during 2011 to explore recent trends in the study of the conflict, the gap between scholarly and popular understanding of the war, and how photography continues to shape its meaning.

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 will be the third and final program, “Is there Anything More to See? Civil War Photography and History” a panel of historians and art historians, including Anthony Lee (Mount Holyoke College), Mary Niall Mitchell (University of New Orleans), Martha Sandweiss (Princeton University), and Deborah Willis (Tisch School of the Arts, NYU), addresses the persistence of photography's influence over the vision of the Civil War, and what remains to be learned from the medium and the war's visual record.

Visit www.ashp.cuny.edu/civil-war-150/ for a full list of this series’ events.

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