Dr. Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum

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  Corroborating the work of Sjoo and More, cultural historian Lucia Birnbaum shows in her research that the original deity of our species was a dark woman/mother at the center of life-originating in Africa-- whose values include justice with compassion, equality and transformation.
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  Based on her research including that of geneticists Birnbaum tells us that there is indeed only one race-African.
  
  Like currents of water rippling out from the toss of a stone, the waves of patriarchal horror have spread out across the earth, only in tsunami proportions.Documenting what she refers to as the Kurgan invasions, the late eminent archeologist, linguist, archeomythologist and scientist, Marija Gimbutas informs us that some 5000 years ago, peoples from the steppes region of the Black Sea descended on the peaceful and apparent egalitarian and no doubt, matrifocaled cultures, of Old Europe, in three different waves of conquest, spreading out over several thousand years.

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  Bringing a feminist perspective to contemporary findings of geneticists and archaeologists, Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, cultural historian, points out that the oldest veneration we know is of a dark mother of central and south Africa, whose signs -- red ochre and the pubic V -- were taken by african migrants after 50,000 BCE to caves and cliffs of all continents.The oldest sanctuary in the world was created in 40,000 BCE by african migrants at Har Karkom, later called Mt. Sinai, foundation place of judaism, christianity, and islam.
  
  Lucia documents the continuing veneration of the dark mother and her values in prehistoric images of the dark mother, in historic black madonnas, and in other dark women divinites whose sanctuaries are on african paths.She tracks the memory in rituals and stories of her sicilian grandmothers, in persecution of dark others in patriarchal Europe and the United States, in the rise of nonviolent dark others since the 1960s, in the banners of the 1995 world conference of women at Beijing, in art, and in contemporary transformational movements.
  
  She finds the dark mother's values -- justice with compassion, equality, and transformation -- in everyday and celebratory rituals of the world's subaltern cultures -- and suggests that the image and values are in the submerged memories of everyone.

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  Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum California Institute of Integral Studies

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  by Professor Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum (Author)
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  My research in the cultural history of Italy for Liberazione della donna.Feminism in Italy (1986) and Black Madonnas.Feminism, religion, and politics in Italy (1993,1997) uncovered a pervasive memory of a dark mother and her values: justice with compassion, equality, and transformation.
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  The underside of dominant cultures studied in (b) representations of the memory of the dark mother in images of black madonnas of Europe, (c) popular stories about saints; e.g., Santa Lucia, whom the church expropriated for patriarchal doctrine, yet memory of the african dark mother, and her values persisted in popular stories and rituals about santa Lucia whom people identify as a santone (great saint) along with prehistoric divinity Cybele and christian Maria. .
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  Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, Ph.D., is a multicultural historian whose Liberazione della Donna: Feminism in Italy won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1987.
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  In October 1998, Lucia Birnbaum received the prestigious Valitutti Award for non-fiction for Black Madonnas.In 2001, she published Dark Mother: African Origins and Godmothers.
  
  In 1996, for her books and work for a just world, Dr. Birnbaum was inducted into the International African American Multicultural Educators Hall of Fame.She serves on the Board of Directors of the Italian Research and Study Program for the International Area Studies at UC Berkeley.
  
  Lucia holds a doctorate in European and U.S. history from the University of California at Berkeley.A founder of the Peace and Freedom Party in 1967, she was an assistant professor of U.S. history at San Francisco State University, a few days from achieving tenure when she was fired for participating in the student/professor strike against racism and imperialism.Thereafter an independent scholar, she frequently travels to Italy for research and teaches and lectures in the U.S.
  
  In May 2002, Lucia was awarded Serpentina's Enheduanna Award for Excellence in Women-Centered Literature.

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  Feminist historian Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum maintains that the expression is a testament to the image's Semitic antecedents.

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  Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum is a Sicilian/American historian and Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies program in Women's Spirituality, Philosophy and Religion in San Francisco.She has long been interested in submerged beliefs, an interest evident in her award winning books, Liberazione della Donna: Feminism in Italy (1986), Black Madonnas: Feminism, Religion, and Politics in Italy (1993), and Dark Mother: African Origins and Godmothers (2001).

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  Dark Mother Exhibit and Book release, Dr. Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum California Institute of Integral Studies Art Gallery, S.F. CA Spring 2002
  
  Mocha Children's Museum, Oakland, CA, P.A.S.S Program & Self Portrait 2000

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  Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, Ph.D Professor, Philosophy and Religion, Program in Feminist Spirituality California Institute of Integral Studies, SF
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  Editor: She is Everywhere Vol. 1

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  Interviews from Graduate Thesis: Former S.F. Mayoral Candidate Angela Alioto,Feminist Historian, Writer, and Professor, Dr. Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum - California State University, Hayward, Department of Education 1992

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  Jodi will be a guest lecturer on this Celtic New Year in the Women's Spirituality graduate studies class, "She Is Everywhere," taught by professor and author Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum.

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