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[PAST EVENT] Women's Studies/Africana Studies Brownbag
November 16, 2011
12pm - 1pm
Location
Boswell Hall (formerly Morton Hall), Room 314100 Ukrop Way
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
Professor Schlabach's talk is called "Jet Magazine, September 1955: Making Visual Sense of Emmett Till and Jet's Beauty of the Week Feature."
Betsy Schlabach is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department and American Studies Program. Her research focuses on African American History, Urban Studies-specifically race relations in mid twentieth-century Chicago-and women's studies. Her book project with University of Illinois Press entitled "Along the Streets of Bronzeville: Black Chicago's Renaissance" is a study of geography,
race, and the arts in Bronzeville. She obtained her Phd in American Studies from Saint Louis University in 2008.
Betsy Schlabach is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department and American Studies Program. Her research focuses on African American History, Urban Studies-specifically race relations in mid twentieth-century Chicago-and women's studies. Her book project with University of Illinois Press entitled "Along the Streets of Bronzeville: Black Chicago's Renaissance" is a study of geography,
race, and the arts in Bronzeville. She obtained her Phd in American Studies from Saint Louis University in 2008.