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James J. Barney’s new book reassesses David Dinkins’s historic mayoralty and the multiracial coalition that elected New York City’s first African American mayor. Drawing on archival research, A Fragile Alliance examines the challenges of governing a divided city amid racial conflict, economic recession, rising crime, the AIDS epidemic, and political backlash.
The British Library Eliot Room | Thursday 17 September, 18.30-19.30 | Free, no booking required
Uppsala University’s Swedish Institute for North American Studies (SINAS) is offering visiting grants for 1–2 PhD students within the humanities and social sciences for a 2–4 week stay in Uppsala during autumn 2026, the exact duration and timing to be determined in consultation with SINAS. The grant covers travel and accommodation for up to 25.000 SEK. Grantees will be allocated office space and library resources.
The Tenth Faulkner Studies in the UK colloquium examines what emerges when William Faulkner and James Baldwin are read together not simply as writers of the American experience, but as competing interpreters of race, history, modernity, violence, religion, and American identity.
"This groundbreaking book mounts an important challenge to the canonical narratives of nineteenth-century US architectural history. In place of traditional themes such as aesthetic innovation, technological progress, and cultural assimilation, Rewriting American Architecture foregrounds architecture's relationship to topics such as settler colonialism, transnationality, slavery, race, land, and labor. - Irene Cheng, author of The Shape of Utopia
“A stunningly original work that radically alters our assumptions about the making of citizens. Somerville deftly mines a wide array of sources to turn our focus from individuals seeking to naturalize to racial, settler, and sexual state practices that produce new citizens. Consistently surprising and illuminating—this book is a true tour de force.” - Leti Volpp, Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law in Access to Justice, UC Berkeley
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