Jonathan Scott Holloway discusses his book, “Jim Crow Wisdom”
Jim 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 author of Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941 (2002). He is a specialist in post-emancipation United States history with a […]
“American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs” Free Screening
Screening will be followed by conversation with filmmaker Grace Lee. Tickets are first-come, first-served.
Shana Redmond discusses her book, “Anthem”
Anthem: 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 California. She holds a PhD from Yale University and has published widely on black music and politics. *co-sponsored with the Bunche Center.
Groundings: Black Solidarity with Palestine
Conversation 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 Moon, and Robin D. G. Kelley, interim chair of African American Studies
Akinyele Umoja discusses his book, “We Will Shoot Back”
We 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 and historian of the black freedom movement, Dr. Umoja holds a PhD from Emory University.
“Black Youth Culture, Informal Economy & Drugs in the 1980s” by Donna Murch
Donna 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 and research specializations are postwar U.S. history, modern African American history, and twentieth-century urban studies. Her talk will center around the research for her upcoming […]
