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Digital Humanities Center, 103 Milstein Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Mengia Hong Tschalaer
Taking several specific case studies as point of departure, the project illustrates the central role of Eurocentric sexual regimes in determining the parameters of asylum the il/legal.
James Room, 4th Floor, Barnard Hall, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Debbie Reese, Jean Mendoza, Linda Sue Park, Vanessa Brantley-Newton, Kacen Callender, Roshani Chokshi, Michaela Goade, Raul the Third, Nikki Grimes, Adib Khorram, Minh Le, Nilah Bagruder, Aida Salazar, Traci Sorell, Duncan Tonatiuh, Ibi Zoboi, and more
Join Kweli for the third annual Color of Children’s Literature Conference, a conference for Indigenous and People of Color writers and illustrators to learn and connect with others in the industry. This year’s conference will honor the legacy of Walter Dean Myers, an award-winning Black writer of children’s and young adult literature.
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Dána-Ain Davis, Toni Bond, Cara Page, and Dorothy Roberts
Dána-Ain Davis’s new book Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (NYU 2019) is a prescient investigation into the high rates of premature birth among Black women, finding that this problem is not explained by economic factors but ideas about race and reproduction with a deeper historical context rooted in the era of slavery.
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Assistant Professor & Charles H. Mcilwain University Preceptor Department of African American Studies
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s new book Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (UNC Press 2019) uncovers how the the story of the end of housing discrimination through the prohibition of redlining in the late 1960s and early 1970s belies the continuation of exploitative real estate practices and a new, disasterous phenomenon of predatory inclusion.
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Drawing on the writings of Avery Gordon, Saidiya Hartman, and César Sánchez Beras, Dan-el Padilla Peralta hopes to generate some critical momentum around the premise that Classics is a ghostly matter, haunted by its participation in global projects of race-making but insistent on denying responsibility for the violences committed in its name.
James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Join us to discuss Ntozake Shange's development as an artist over the course of her lifetime, and new ways of thinking about the confluence of language and movement and its implications for her work.