Black Power/Black Thought with Ashley Farmer & Ibram X. Kendi
Date and Time
Apr 26, 2018 6:30 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Apr 26, 2018 6:30 pm
14th & V
Join Busboys and Poets Books as we welcome Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award Winner and author of Stamped: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America as he talks with Ashley D. Farmer about her new book, Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era. Complicating the assumption that race and gender constraints relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Remaking Black Power demonstrates how black women fought for more inclusive understandings of Black liberation and social justice during the Black Power movement. Kendi and Farmer will discuss the book’s insights about the rise and fall of the black power movement, black women's myriad contributions to the black freedom struggle, and how histories of this period can inform activism and race relations today.
Ashley Farmer is a historian of black women’s history, intellectual history, and radical politics. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the African American Studies Program at Boston University. Farmer’s scholarship has appeared in numerous venues including The Black Scholar and The Journal of African American History. She has also contributed to popular outlets like The Independent and the History Channel. She is also a leader in the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) and a regular blogger for Black Perspectives. Farmer earned her BA from Spelman College and a PhD in African American Studies from Harvard University.
Ibram X. Kendi is a New York Times best-selling author and award-winning historian. He is Professor of History and International Relations and the Founding Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. His second book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Nation, 2016) won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a NAACP Image Award. Kendi also authored the award-winning book, The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstruction of Higher Education, 1965-1972 (Palgrave, 2012).
Kendi has published fourteen essays on Black power, intellectual history, racism, and antiracism in books, academic journals, and periodicals like The New York Times, Time, Black Perspectives, The Washington Post, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is also working on, How to Be an Antiracist: A Memoir of My Journey, which will be published by Random House. Kendi earned his BA from Florida A&M University, and MA and PhD in African American Studies from Temple University. He lives in Washington, DC.
This event is co-sponsored by The University of North Carolina Press.
