Events for May 4, 2015 - October 4, 2014
9 events found.
“Black Youth Culture, Informal Economy & Drugs in the 1980s” by Donna Murch
Bunche Center Library 135 Haines HallDonna Murch, a Bunche Center Visiting Scholar, is associate professor of history at Rutgers University and co-director of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis and the Black Atlantic. Her teaching […]
Akinyele Umoja discusses his book, “We Will Shoot Back”
Bunche Center Library 135 Haines HallWe Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement (NYU Press, 2013) Akinyele Umoja is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African-American Studies, Georgia State University. A long-time activist […]
Groundings: Black Solidarity with Palestine
Boelter Hall 5249Conversation with writer dream hampton and hip hop artist Jasiri X about their recent trip to Palestine, facilitated by Sohail Dalautzai, Professor at UCI and author of Black Star, Crescent […]
Shana Redmond discusses her book, “Anthem”
Bunche Center Library 135 Haines HallAnthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora (NYU Press, 2013) Shana Redmond is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern […]
“The Art of Being Difficult: The Turn to Abstraction in African-American Poetry & Painting During the 1940s and ’50s” by Jackie Goldsby
Faculty Commons Room 193 Humanities Building“American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs” Free Screening
James Bridges Theater 235 Charles E Young Dr.Screening will be followed by conversation with filmmaker Grace Lee. Tickets are first-come, first-served.
Jonathan Scott Holloway discusses his book, “Jim Crow Wisdom”
Bunche Center Library 135 Haines HallJim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black American Since 1940 (UNC Press, 2013) Jonathan Holloway, Yale University Professor of History, American Studies and African American Studies is also the […]
