Friends, I have provided below my complete blog written during the Returning to the Roots of Civil Rights Tour I went on between June 11-19, 2011. I was accompanied on this tour by 4 colleagues from Messiah. Their own blogs can be found at http://blogs.messiah.edu/2011_civil_rights_tour/ So here goes… DAY ONE ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS TOUR, [...]
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Civil Rights Journey 2011–My Complete Blog
Posted in Bernardo Michael on August 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Check out the Civil Rights 2011 Blog
Posted in Bernardo Michael, Faculty Activities on June 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Friends, I, along with 4 employees of Messiah College are currently on a Civil Rights pilgrimage. We are currently in Memphis TN. But in case you wish to check out our blog visit it at http://blogs.messiah.edu/2011_civil_rights_tour/ hope the summer is proceeding well for all of you. bernardo
A Clash of Civilizations? Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Posted in Bernardo Michael, Book Reviews on April 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A Clash of Civilizations? Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Chinese-American mother and law professor at Yale, Amy Chua recently created a storm of controversy when she published her book, The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Penguin, 2011). A memoir of her experiences raising her children in the United States generated a [...]
Ajantha Subramanian’s Shorelines is a must read!
Posted in Bernardo Michael, Book Reviews on September 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished reading Ajantha Subramanian’s Shorelines: Space and Rights in South India (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009). An enjoyable read indeed. Subramanian who is the Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Social Studies at Harvard University has produced a fascinating and thought provoking work on fisher communities, territoriality, and rights in Kanyakumari [...]
Working at the British Library can be fun!
Posted in Bernardo Michael, Faculty Activities on August 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In July 2010 I traveled to the United Kingdom to spend 10 days at the British Library to work on the map collections of the English East India Company (1600-1858). The British Library is the state-of-the-art National Library of the United Kingdom and is located in the heart of London. The Library holds 14 million books, [...]
From India to the Messiah College History Department
Posted in Bernardo Michael, Interviews, Jim LaGrand on February 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Colleagues and friends Jim LaGrand, professor of American history, and Bernardo Michael, associate professor of history, talk about Michael’s journey from his home country of India to Messiah College, a place that wasn’t even on his radar screen when he began looking for a teaching position after completing his doctorate. Listen to the interview here.
