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A Reading and Discussion Series on the Black Radical Tradition

October 31, 2017 - December 5, 2017

The UCSB Center for Black Studies Research presents

A Reading and Discussion Series on the Black Radical Tradition

This year long series examines how we might read US and world history differently through the lens of African/Black epistemologies and the history of Black struggle, and what these ideas and movements have to tell us about the workings of racial capitalism, slavery, colonialism, and violence as well as collective efforts to refashion freedom and democracy.

 

FALL 2017- ln Fall 2017, we will read Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism.

Tuesday, Oct. 31, 4-5:30 PM Read “Part l.” George Lipsitz, facilitator

Tuesday, Nov. 14, 4-5:30 PM Read “Part 11.” Esther Lezra, facilitator

Tuesday, Dec. 5, 4-5:30 PM Read “Part lll.” Chris McAuley, facilitator

Center for Black Studies Research, 4603 South Hall

 

WINTER 2018- In Winter 2018, we will read two books by Clyde Woods: Development Arrested and Development Drowned and Reborn (ed. Jordan T. Camp and Laura Pulido)

Facilitators: Vilna Bashi Treitler and Chris McAuley

Dates TBD

 

SPRING 2018- ln Spring 2018, we will read Futures of Black Radicalism, edited by Gaye T heresa Johnson and Alex Lubin

Facilitators: Felice Blake and Diane Fujino

Dates TBD

 

Don’t come as a tourist. Don’t come as a prisoner. Come as a participant.

The discussion sessions are open to all. The price of admission is free. But we insist that you come having read the materials. Please email a discussion question based on the readings to Jonathan Gomez at jdgomez@umail.ucsb.edu, at least 24 hours in advance. This email will be your ticket in the door: bring a printed copy or show it on your phone.

For those reading and attending, the CBSR is providing a limited number of books gratis: first to graduate students and postdocs on October 18 and 19, then to others, starting October 20. Please email Jonathan Gomez at jdgomez@umail.ucsb.edu for more information.

For more information, contact Professor Diane Fujino, CBSR Director, at fujino@ucsb.edu, or Rosa Pinter, Business Officer, at rpinter@cbs.ucsb.edu or 805-893-3914

This is part of the CBSR’s series on “Transformative Scholarship, Freedom Dreams, and the Future of Black Studies.” Thanks to the Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Research for funding and to the Department of Black Studies and UC Consortium for Black Studies in California for their collaborative visions.

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Details

Start:
October 31, 2017
End:
December 5, 2017

Venue

UC Santa Barbara Center for Black Studies Research, 4603 South Hall

Details

Start:
October 31, 2017
End:
December 5, 2017

Venue

UC Santa Barbara Center for Black Studies Research, 4603 South Hall