CBFS | State Violence, Prisons, Police, Politics

Описание: Five scholars dive into the histories behind the contemporary abolitionist movement. Orisanmi Burton, author of Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt, challenges the dominant historiography of the Attica Rebellion, situating it instead within a longer history of revolt within and beyond New York State's prisons and jails. Donna Murch will discuss Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives diving deeply into the Black left politics of the 1980s and 1990s and the emergence of an abolitionist feminist movement. Mary Frances Phillips, author of Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins, will share about the grounded praxis developed by Black Panther Party political prisoner Ericka Huggins to resist state violence inside the belly of the beast. Charles W. McKinney will discuss the long Black freedom movement and the edited collection he published alongside co-editor Françoise N. Hamlin, From Rights to Lives: The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle.

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PANELISTS

Orisanmi Burton is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at American University and author of Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt

Donna Murch is associate professor of history at Rutgers University and the author of Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives

Mary Phillips is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and author Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins

Francoise Hamlin is the Royce Family Associate Professor of Teaching Excellence in Africana Studies & History at Brown University.and co-editor with Charles McKinney of From Rights to Lives: The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle

Charles W. McKinney Jr. is chair of Africana studies and associate professor of history at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. His primary research interests include the Civil Rights Movement, and the exploration of local movements in particular.

ABOUT CONVERSATIONS IN BLACK FREEDOM STUDIES

The founding curators of this series, Professors Jeanne Theoharis (Brooklyn College/CUNY) and Komozi Woodard (Sarah Lawrence College), introduced a new paradigm that challenged the older geography, leadership, ideology, culture and chronology of Civil Rights historiography. Jeanne Theoharis continues in her role and is joined by Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine (Wayne State University) ) as co-curator. Komozi Woodard continues to advise the series from an emeritus position. Discussions take place on the first Thursday of each month.

Learn more: http://www.blackfreedomstudies.org