Racecraft: An Elemental Form of American Life
Durkheim and Du Bois: The Idea of Race & the Idea of Soul
Tuesday, October 8, 4pm, 206 Ingraham
Soul and Race in Everyday Rituals of America Life
Wednesday, October 9, 4pm, 8417 Social Science
Open Seminar for Students, Faculty and Public
Thursday, October 10, 12:20pm, 8108 Social Science
Co-sponsored by Global Studies and the Afro-American Studies Department
KAREN E. FIELDS is an independent scholar and author. Dr. Fields holds degrees from Harvard University, Brandeis University, and the Sorbonne. She is the author of many scholarly articles and these books: With Mamie Garvin Fields, Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir (1982), Revival and Rebellion in Colonial Central Africa (1985), and a full retranslation of Emile Durkheim’s greatest book, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1995). With Barbara J. Fields, she has recently published Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (2012), and is currently at work on Bordeaux’s Africa. She lives in Richmond Virginia.