"Where Do We Go from Here?": 2017 Martin Luther King Jr. Day Symposium
Maylei Blackwell (University of California, Los Angeles) and N.D.B. Connolly (Johns Hopkins University)
Featuring Maylei Blackwell (University of California, Los Angeles) and N.B.D. Connolly (Johns Hopkins University). Recognizing the exceptional circumstances posed for US racial/ethnic politics by the
Trump presidency, these two engaged scholars of struggles for justice pick up the
theme of Martin Luther King Jr.’s last book, Where Do We Go from Here?
Maylei Blackwell is an associate professor in the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies and Women's Studies Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research has two distinct, but interrelated trajectories that broadly analyze how women's social movements in the U.S. and Mexico are shaped by questions of difference factors such as race, indigeneity, class, sexuality or citizenship status and how these differences impact the possibilities and challenges of transnational organizing. Through collaborative and community-based research, Professor Blackwell has excavated genealogies of women of color feminism in the U.S. and accompanied indigenous women organizers in Mexico as well as feminist movements and sexual rights activists throughout Latin American. Her most recent research with farm worker women and indigenous migrants seeks to better understand new forms of grassroots transnationalism.
N.D.B. Connolly is Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on the interplay between racism, capitalism, politics, and the built environment in the twentieth century. Connolly's first book, A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida, received, among other awards, the 2015 Liberty Legacy Foundation Book Award from the Organization of American Historians and the 2014 Kenneth T. Jackson Book Award from the Urban History Association. He is currently advancing two new book-length projects. The first is Four Daughters: An America Story, a collective biography covers three generations of a single family, following the lives of four women of color whose forbearers migrated from the Caribbean to the United States by way of Britain between the 1930s and 1990s. The second expands on the intimate scale of Four Daughters to assess and synthesize broader trends, patterns, and processes. Black Capitalism: The "Negro Problem" and the American Economy offers the first sweeping account of how black economic success shaped the way Americans and immigrants understood the possibilities offered by capitalism in the United States.
This event made possible by the Kalt Fund for African American and African History, along with the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.
Trump presidency, these two engaged scholars of struggles for justice pick up the
theme of Martin Luther King Jr.’s last book, Where Do We Go from Here?
Maylei Blackwell is an associate professor in the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies and Women's Studies Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research has two distinct, but interrelated trajectories that broadly analyze how women's social movements in the U.S. and Mexico are shaped by questions of difference factors such as race, indigeneity, class, sexuality or citizenship status and how these differences impact the possibilities and challenges of transnational organizing. Through collaborative and community-based research, Professor Blackwell has excavated genealogies of women of color feminism in the U.S. and accompanied indigenous women organizers in Mexico as well as feminist movements and sexual rights activists throughout Latin American. Her most recent research with farm worker women and indigenous migrants seeks to better understand new forms of grassroots transnationalism.
N.D.B. Connolly is Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on the interplay between racism, capitalism, politics, and the built environment in the twentieth century. Connolly's first book, A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida, received, among other awards, the 2015 Liberty Legacy Foundation Book Award from the Organization of American Historians and the 2014 Kenneth T. Jackson Book Award from the Urban History Association. He is currently advancing two new book-length projects. The first is Four Daughters: An America Story, a collective biography covers three generations of a single family, following the lives of four women of color whose forbearers migrated from the Caribbean to the United States by way of Britain between the 1930s and 1990s. The second expands on the intimate scale of Four Daughters to assess and synthesize broader trends, patterns, and processes. Black Capitalism: The "Negro Problem" and the American Economy offers the first sweeping account of how black economic success shaped the way Americans and immigrants understood the possibilities offered by capitalism in the United States.
This event made possible by the Kalt Fund for African American and African History, along with the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.
| Building: | Tisch Hall |
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| Event Type: | Lecture / Discussion |
| Tags: | African American, History |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Department of History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies |
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