Announcing the Fall 2020 CBFS Season
September 01, 2020
CONVERSATIONS IN BLACK FREEDOM STUDIES will be going virtual for the 2020-2021 season. We're excited to announce our fall season now, with the spring schedule to follow soon.
SEPTEMBER 3: How Did We Get Here? The Long Struggle for Educational Justice in New York
- Ujju Aggarwal, co-editor, What's Race Got to Do With It? How Current School Reform Policy Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality
- Ernest Morrell, co-editor, Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community
- Terrenda White, contributor to both books
OCTOBER 1: Fighting for the Franchise: A Century of Struggle for Voting Rights
- Carol Anderson, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy
- Ari Berman, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
- Martha Jones, Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
- Liz Theoharis, co-organizer of The Poor People’s Campaign and co-author, Revive Us Again: Vision and Action in Moral Organizing
NOVEMBER 5: Histories of Multiracial Solidarity and Struggle
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
- Johanna Fernandez, The Young Lords: A Radical History
- Paul Ortiz, An African American and Latinx History of the United States
DECEMBER 3: Resisting Carceral Cities: Prisons, Police & Punishment in Historical Perspective
- Garett Felber Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement and the Carceral State
- Kelly Lytle Hernandez, City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965
- Carl Suddler, Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York