July 17, 2010 - 1:05p-2:20p
The Schomburg Center, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard,
New York, NY 10037
Barack Obama's election as the 44th President of the United States upends
conventional notions of citizenship, racial justice, and equality that contoured the
modern civil rights movement. This panel seeks to critically explore the way in which
this watershed event has reverberated to transform the way in which civil rights era
definitions of citizenship, equality, and democracy are undergoing rapid change both
within, and outside of, American borders.
MODERATOR:
Rev. Herbert Daughtry, In My Lifetime: Towards the Presidency of
Barack Obama (Africa World Press)
PANELISTS:
Paul
Butler, Let's Get Free: A Hip Hop Theory of Justice (The New Press)
Yohuru Williams, Black Politics/White Power: Civil Rights, Black Power,
and the Black Panthers in New Haven (John Wiley & Sons)
William Jelani Cobb, The
Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress (Bloomsbury)
Peniel
Joseph, Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, The U.S. Constitution: An African-American Context
Steve Clark, Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power (Ed.)
