Institute of African American Research (IAAR): Bibliographies

“Developing a Mobile Mental Health Application for African American Young Adults,” presented by Henry Willis Ph.D. Student, UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. This talk took place on Monday, February 25, 2019, at 3 pm in Room 305 of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center.

“‘I Do It For Them’: Teammate Bonds and Constructed Brotherhood,” presented by Tracie Canada, University of Virginia Department of Anthropology. This talk took place on Monday, November 12, 2018, at 3 pm in Room 305 of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center.

"Collapse or Transition? Visualizing Agricultural Alternatives in the Rural Caribbean," presented by Samantha King, UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Anthropology. The talk took place on April 3, 2017, at 12:45 pm in Room 309 of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center.

"Race & Public Education in New Orleans: A Case Study of the Fillmore School, 1856-1978," presented by Mishio Yamanaka, UNC-Chapel Hill Department of History. The talk took place on February 6, 2017, at 12:45 pm in Room 309C of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center.

"Sisters in Health: a Weight Loss Health Program for African-American Women," presented by Loneke Blackman Carr, PhD Student, Department of Nutrition, UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health. The talk took place on December 5, 2016, at 12:45 pm in Room 309 of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center.

"Memeing The (Black) Presidency: Obama Images and the Affective Ambivalence of Racialized Policing," presented by James Alexander McVey, PhD Student, UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Communication. The talk took place on October 17, 2016, at 12:45 pm in Room 309C of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center.

“Taller Than the Wall: Carceral Activism in the Empire State,” presented by Orisanmi Burton, UNC-Chapel Hill Anthropology Department. The talk took place on April 18, 2016, at noon in Room 309C of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center.

“Social Cognition and African Americans: The Roles of Perceived Discrimination and Experimenter Race on Task Performance,” presented by Arundati Nagendra, UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Clinical Psychology and Neuroscience. The talk took place on April 4, 2016, at noon in Room 309C of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center.

“Against a Segregated Visibility: Re-situating the Civil Rights Movement in American Art of the 1990s,” presented by Kim Bobier, UNC-Chapel Hill Art Department. The talk took place on February 22, 2016, at noon in Room 309C of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center.

"Examining Socio-Structural Factors of T2D Management in Rural Afro-Dominican Populations," presented by Deshira Wallace, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Public Health. The talk took place on February 2, 2016, at 12:30 pm in Room 309C of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center.

“A Visual Analysis of Phases of Police Brutality Against Unarmed African Americans from 1979 to 2014,” presented by Olivia Dorsey, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science. The talk took place on November 16, 2015, at noon in Room 309C of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center.

“Tracking Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in African American Communities in Industrial Hog Production Regions of North Carolina,” presented by Sarah Rhodes, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Public Health, and Elizabeth Christenson, UNC-Chapel Hill Psychology Department. The talk was held on October 21, 2015, at noon in Room 309C of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center.

“The Voter Education Project and the Financing of the Black Freedom Movement: The Case of Monroe, Louisiana, 1963-1966,” presented by Evan Faulkenbury, UNC-Chapel Hill Department of History. The talk was held on September 21, 2015 at noon in Room 309C of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center.

“Student Perspectives on Resegregation in NC Public Schools,” Shelby Dawkins-Law, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Education. The talk was held on Monday, April 13, 2015, at noon in Room 309C of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center.

“Condom Distribution and Safe Sex Messaging Intervention Targeting Young Black Women,” Diane Francis, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The talk was held on February 9, 2015, at noon in Room 309C of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center.

“Brazilian Quilombos: Historical & Contemporary Struggles,” presented by Adam Bledsoe, UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Geography. The talk was held on January 12, 2015, at noon in Room 309C of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center.

"Environmental Conditions in U.S. Black Towns," a conversation led on Twitter by post-doctoral fellow Danielle Purifoy from the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Geography.

"Black & Latino Political Incorporation in Durham, NC," presented by Dr. Andrea Benjamin, Assistant Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Political Science. The talk took place on February 16, 2017, at 3 pm in Room 111 of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center.

Dr. Hana E. Brown, IAAR Visiting Scholar and Assistant Professor of Sociology, Wake Forest University, discussed Black-Latino relations in the New South on Tuesday, March 22, 2016, at 3 pm in the University Room of Hyde Hall.

Dr. Frank R. Baumgartner discussed the racial disparity in traffic stops in North Carolina between the years 2002 and 2013 on Wednesday, September 9, 2015, at 7 pm in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room of Wilson Library on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus.

Dr. Sylvia Rodriguez Vargas discussed culturally relevant leadership in independent schools on Tuesday, March 17, 2015, at 3 pm in the Toy Lounge of Dey Hall on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus.