Roundtable on New Directions in African American Studies and Book History: Part 1. Speakers: Brenna Greer (History, Wellesley); Kinohi Nishikawa (English, Princeton); Rhae Lynn Barnes (History, Princeton); Derrick Spires (English, Cornell).

Date and Time

November 16, 2020
05:00PM - 06:30PM EST

Location

Registration: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqd-2spjMtE9HAypY88Lhu4_y2TuVDI8zR

Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on History of the Book

Program:

  • Rhae Lynn Barnes (History, Princeton), “Called Everything But A Child of God: Great Migration Mothers and the Civil Rights Campaign Against Amateur Blackface Minstrelsy School Books” 
  • Brenna Greer (History, Wellesley), “Black Lives Matter in Print”
  • Kinohi Nishikawa (English, Princeton), “Black Pagecraft”
  • Derrick Spires (English, Cornell), “Pseudonymous Networks and Literary Movement Making in the Antebellum Black Press” 

Part 2 will take place on February 8, 2021, 5:00-6:30 EST featuring: Kim Gallon (History, Purdue); Dorothy Berry (Houghton Library, Harvard); Jacqueline Goldsby (English and African American Studies, Yale); Meredith McGill (English, Rutgers). Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History.

The two sessions are designed to form a set; all the speakers and we hope many in the audience will attend both sessions.

 

To attend on Nov 16 please register in advance here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqd-2spjMtE9HAypY88Lhu4_y2TuVDI8zR  After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.