Border Institute for Advanced Studies

Towards an Complexity-Based Analysis of Slavery and Reparations

There is a new book that shows how complexity science can be used to bring needed changes to higher ed, to gain a deeper understanding of the Mexico-US border and immigration issues and to address climate change.

Emily Hicks' An Introduction to Complexity Pedagogy, Using Critical Theory, Critical Pedagogy and Complexity in Performance and Literature

Professor Hicks, who shares Melungeon ancestry with President Obama, discusses a mixed ancestry servant, Mary Chilton Monroe, who worked in the household of the great-grandfather of President James Monroe (1758- ) and Obama's link to Edwin Conway.

Caiifornia professor's shared ancestry with Obama has lead to a breakthrough in mixed ancestry and Melungeon studies. Hicks discusses the two theoretical models that she put forward in her book Border Writing.

Southern California professor D. Emily Hicks has discovered that she and President Obama share Melungeon ancestry. This, along with findings by another researcher has led to a breakthrough in Hicks' work on borders and mixed ancestry.

President Obama and California professor D. Emily Hicks, a professor of Chicana/o Studies at San Diego State University, share Melungeon ancestry. Both are related to Melungeons and to the following families: Balls, Washingtons, Eltonheads.