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Karin Shapiro

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Professor of the Practice in the Department of African and African American Studies
African & African American Studies
kshapiro@duke.edu
Box 90252, Durham, NC 27708
243D Friedl Building, Box 90252, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours Wednesdays 3:30pm-5:00pm  
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Scholarly Works - Digital art

A Road Out

Digital art · May 2025 A Road Out invites you to explore how community health initiatives can cross borders and cultures, showing what medicine can achieve when healthcare professionals and communities work together to heal and thrive. Filled with photographs, interviews, film c ... Link to item Cite

“John Henry Lives On: Sherman James and the John Henryism"

Digital art · 2018 Epidemiologist Sherman James explores the startling effects of discrimination on the wellbeing of African Americans. He explains how the stressors induced by racial and economic oppression not only circumscribed opportunities, but also adversely affected p ... Link to item Cite

Fulbright Revisited

Digital art · 2011 Featured Publication Using the Fulbright Program as a case study, we seek to examine the role and success of international exchange programs as a means of fostering international understanding and as a buttress to multilateralism. In the midst of the Cold War, hundreds of thou ... Link to item Cite

Double Vision: A Journey into the South African Diaspora in North Carolina

Digital art · 2005 Double Vision seeks to tell the stories of South African immigrants to North Carolina, revealing their complex motives for immigration, their struggles to reconstruct communities both with other South Africans and with North Carolinians, and the changing c ... Link to item Cite