BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:PUBLISH
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
PRODID:-//WordPress - MECv6.5.6//EN
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://americanwritersmuseum.org/
X-WR-CALNAME:The American Writers Museum
X-WR-CALDESC:A National Museum Celebrating American Writers
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE
BEGIN:VEVENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:MEC-b257b3937f0e272207bf484c8e0beb59@americanwritersmuseum.org
DTSTART:20240519T183000Z
DTEND:20240519T192500Z
DTSTAMP:20240307T190200Z
CREATED:20240307
LAST-MODIFIED:20240507
PRIORITY:5
TRANSP:OPAQUE
SUMMARY:Writing the Dark Testament: Black History
DESCRIPTION:Featured writers: Charisse Burden-Stelly and Andrew W. Kahrl; Moderator: Arionne Nettles\nThe economic cost of racism is the subject for two historians whose work focuses on how capitalism costs Black people more than any other ethnic group.\nBook signing times (all signings take place in the Winter Garden, 9th Floor)\n🖊️Charisse Burden-Stelly: 2:30 – 2:50\n🖊️Andrew W. Kahrl: 2:30 – 2:50\n🖊️Arionne Nettles: 2:30 – 2:50\nFULL SCHEDULE ( https://americanwritersmuseum.org/american-writers-festival/schedule/ )\nAbout the writers:\n\n\nDR. CHARISSE BURDEN-STELLY is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University and a 2023-2024 Charles Warren Center Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. A scholar of critical Black studies, political theory, political economy, and intellectual history, she is the author of Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States, the co-author of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History, and the co-editor of Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writings and of Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State.\n\n\n\n\nANDREW W. KAHRL is professor of history and African American studies at the University of Virginia. He is the author of the books The Land Was Ours and Free the Beaches.\n\nARIONNE NETTLES is a lecturer at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. As a culture reporter in print and audio, her stories often look into Chicago history, culture, gun violence, policing and race & class disparities as a contributor to the New York Times Opinion, Chicago Reader, The Trace, Medium’s ZORA and Momentum, Chicago PBS station WTTW and NPR affiliate WBEZ. She is also host of Is That True? A Kids Podcast About Facts.\nBooks by these writers:\nVIEW FESTIVAL READING LIST\n\nBlack Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States by Charisse Burden-Stelly\nA radical explication of the ways anti-Black racial oppression has infused the US government’s anti-communist repression.\n\nThe Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America by Andrew W. Kahrl\nRevealing a history that is deep, broad, and infuriating, The Black Tax casts a bold light on the racist practices long hidden in the shadows of America’s tax regimes.\n\nWe Are the Culture: Black Chicago’s Influence on Everything by Arionne Nettles\nPop culture expert Arionne Nettles takes us through the history of how Black Chicagoans have led pop culture in America for decades, and gives insight into the ways culture spreads and influences our lives.\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://americanwritersmuseum.org/program-calendar/american-writers-festival-writing-the-dark-testament-black-history/
CATEGORIES:American Writers Festival,Black Voices,Dark Testament,History & Bio,Politics
LOCATION:Harold Washington Library Center
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://i0.wp.com/americanwritersmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Writing-the-Dark-Testament-Black-History-1080x1080-1.png?fit=1080%2C1080&ssl=1
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR