DATE CHANGE: Due to travel delays, Ibram Kendi’s April 3 lecture has been cancelled and rescheduled for April 17. 详情即将公布.
WASHINGTON, PA (March 27, 2017) – National Book Award winner Ibram Kendi will speak at 华盛顿 & 杰佛逊学院&J) in a free, public lecture on April 17.
Kendi的lecture, “Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America,” is based on his award-winning book of the same title. The event time and location will be announced at a later date.
大卫·基兰博士.D., a W&J assistant professor of history who orchestrated Kendi’s visit, said Kendi’s book is making such an impact in academic communitites that he thought it would resonate for both a W&J audience and the local community. The book provides a context for thinking and discussion of race issues, he said.
“Over the past few years we’ve seen increased attention to matters of race and questions of justice surrounding race, whether its issues of police violence, the rhetoric that accompanied the 2016 election, or discussion about inclusion on college campuses,基兰说. “One of the things our American Studies department can do is contribute to a productive dialog about matters of race and justice.”
Kendi, a New York Times best-selling author, has published essays in numerous books and academic journals, 包括: The Journal of African American History; 社会历史杂志; 黑人研究杂志; Journal of African American Studies; and The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture. 除了…之外 Stamped From the Beginning, he is also the author of The 黑色的 校园 Movement: 黑色的 Students and the Racial Reconstruction of Higher Education, 1965-1972. He also is the associate editor of 黑色的视角.
Kendi holds undergraduate degrees in journalism and African American studies from Florida A&米大学, and earned his doctoral degree in African American Studies from Temple University in 2010. He was a 2013 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow, a postdoctoral fellow at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, and has resided at The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress as the American Historical Association’s 2010-2011 J. Franklin Jameson Fellow in American History. In 2011, he was a short-term fellow in African American Studies through the 黑色的 Metropolis Research Consortium at the University of Chicago.
Kendi is currently an assistant professor of African American History at the University of Florida. More information is available at http://www.ibram.org/.
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