The Brown bag Lecture 2010 had the overall title 'Migration, Oceans and Resistance from a (Post)colonial Perspective'. It consisted of three presentation by young scholars who tackle some questions concerning these wide field of research.

Steve Estes (Sonoma State University) starts with a presentation about 'Race, Manhood, and the American Civil Rights Movement'.

Latanya Olatunji (University of Wuppertal) and Elisabeth Engel (Free University of Berlin) followed after a short break in the last weeks of the semester.

Latanya Olatunji talked about 'Race, Gender, & Rhythm: Exploring Black American Female Rapper Identities across Hip Hop's Decades from Sequence to Nikki Minaj' and Elisabeth Engel about 'African Americans' "Civilizing Mission" in Colonial Africa During the Interwar Years'.

We would like to thank our presenters and, of course, all participants of the 2010 Brown Bag lecture for their interesting presentations and the participation in the Brown Bag.