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).
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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.