{"id":337,"date":"2014-03-11T17:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T22:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/?p=337"},"modified":"2015-09-30T09:22:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T14:22:01","slug":"becoming-black-a-meditation-on-racialization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/2014\/03\/11\/becoming-black-a-meditation-on-racialization\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Black: A Meditation on Racialization"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Emily<\/a>

Emily Bernard, Professor of English<\/p><\/div>\n

“Becoming Black:\u00a0 A Meditation on Racialization”<\/b><\/span>

Professor Bernard<\/span>‘s daughters weren’t born black; they are Ethiopian by birth.\u00a0 Blackness is the social condition that largely determines their experiences in the United States.\u00a0 They were five years old when they absorbed the fact that black is an ideological, socio-political category that has little to do with actual skin color.\u00a0 They are gradually becoming black, even though they were born in a place where the concept of “blackness” does not exist.\u00a0 In this lecture, Bernard explores the way that blackness is learned and also lived.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Emily Bernard<\/b><\/span>\u00a0is Interim Director of the ALANA U.S. Ethnic Studies program.\u00a0 Her first book,\u00a0Remember me to Harlem<\/i>:\u00a0\u00a0The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten<\/i>\u00a0(2001), was a\u00a0New Your Times<\/i>\u00a0Notable Book of the Year.\u00a0 Her essays have been reprinted in\u00a0Best American Essays<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Best of Creative Non-Fiction<\/i>.\u00a0 Bernard has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Yale University, and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University.\u00a0 Her most recent book is\u00a0Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance:\u00a0 A Portrait in Black and White.<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Dean\u2019s Lecture Series<\/b>\u00a0was established in 1991 as a way to recognize and honor colleagues in the College of Arts and Sciences who have consistently demonstrated the ability to translate their professional knowledge and skill into exciting classroom experiences for their students \u2014 faculty who meet the challenge of being both excellent teachers and highly respected professionals in their own discipline.\u00a0<\/span>The Award is a celebration of the unusually high quality of our faculty and has become an important and treasured event each semester.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Becoming Black:\u00a0 A Meditation on Racialization”Professor Bernard‘s daughters weren’t born black; they are Ethiopian by birth.\u00a0 Blackness is the social condition that largely determines their experiences in the United States.\u00a0 They were five years old when they absorbed the fact that black is an ideological, socio-political category that has little to do with actual skin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[616],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deans-lecture-award-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}