Geographies of Color: Education, Inequality, and Black Leadership in the
21st Century
Schedule of Events
Screenings*
of William Greaves' film
"Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey"
Tues, February 24 and Wed, February 25, 2004 7:00 pm
Dwight Hall, Room 101
"Ralph
Bunche: An American Odyssey"is the first film to explore the
life and legacy of Ralph Bunche, the first African American to receive
the Nobel Peace Prize and former United Nations Under-Secretary
for Special Political Affairs. Narrated by Sidney Poitier, this
seminal documentary explores the meaning of Bunche's accomplishments
and his contribution to global decolonization, conflict resolution
and human rights advancements.
*
Screenings prior to discussion, filmmaker not present.
Discussion
with filmmaker William Greaves
Thursday, February 26, 2004 7:30 pm
Gamble Auditorium, Art Building
 In
celebration of the centenary of the birth of Ralph Bunche, the award-winning
filmmaker, William Greaves,
explores facets of Black Leadership that were either challenged
or exemplified by Bunche. Greaves also discusses his own experiences
as a prominent African American filmmaker devoted to chronicling
the lives of key figures in African American history.
Student
Seminar, filmmaker William Greaves
"Independent and Documentary Filmmaking on the African American
Experience"
Friday, February 27, 10:00 am
Kendade Hall, Room 305
*Students RSVP
by Monday, February 16th
"From
Integration to Affirmative Action: The Contested Status of Brown
in the Campaign to End White Supremacy"
Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw
Thursday, March 4, 7:30 pm
Gamble Auditorium
 On
the fiftieth anniversary of the 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown
v. Board of Education, Crenshaw, professor of law at UCLA and
Columbia University, examines the precedent set by this pivotal
court case. Professor Crenshaw explores the contradictory outcomes
of Brown. How did the decision grant “full citizenship
status” to African Americans without substantially altering
racial inequality?
Click here for more information about
Brown v. Board of Education.
Student
Seminar, Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw
Thursday, March 4, 4:00 pm
Porter Lounge
*Students RSVP
by Friday, February 27th
Panel Discussion, "Are All Mothers
Created Equal?," organized by Crystal Hayes '04
Thursday, March 11, 7:00 pm
Gamble Auditorium, Art Building
This panel discussion examines how black mothers respond to
racism and sexism. Panelists include: asha bandele, features editor,
Essence magazine, author of the memoir The Prisoner's
Wife; Professor Safiya Bandele, Director of The Center for
Women's Development at Medgar Evers College; Joan Morgan, former
Essence Editor, and author of When Chicken Heads Come
Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down; and Rebecca
Walker, daughter of acclaimed poet, writer, teacher Alice Walker,
and author of Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting
Self.
Panel
Discussion, "Rethinking African Empowerment: Youth, Gender,
and Tradition in Africa," organized by Hannah Hafter '04,
Avni Dave '04, Biiftu Aba-Jebel '05, Neda Sobhani '04, Osato Ayanru
'05,
and Thelma Wong '04
Wednesday, March 31, 7:00 pm
Kendade 305
This discussion seeks responses to questions explored at the
African Studies Association fall conference, "Youthful
Africa in
the Twenty-First Century." The panel discusses concepts
of gender, traditional medicine, the culture of youth, and women's
rights in modern Kenya. Students also present independent work on
topics such as education and resistance as forms of leadership,
specifically examining the students strikes at the University
of Fort Hare in South Africa.
 Final
Keynote, "Imagining the Nation: Representing Black Leadership
at the Turn of the Century,” Deborah Willis
Thursday, April 8, 7:30 pm
Gamble Auditorium
Willis, Professor
of Imaging and Photography at Tisch School of the Arts, New York
University, gives a closing lecture that focuses on the uses of
visual arts to define, reinterpret, and re-imagine black life at
the turn of the century, both in Du Bois’s time and our own.
Student Seminar, Professor Deborah Willis
Thursday, April 8, 4:00 pm
Porter Lounge
*Students
RSVP by Thursday, April
1st
All
events are free and open to the public.
Funded
in part by the Katherine B. Fitzgerald Lectureship Fund, The Class
of 1958 Leadership Fund
and the African
American and African Studies Program |
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