Monday, December 3, 2018, -6:00 p.m.
0200 Symons Hall
Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois at Chicago
Barbara Ransby discusses her book, Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the 21st Century (University of California Press, 2018).
THE BOOK: In her new book, award-winning historian and longtime activist Barbara Ransby outlines the scope and genealogy of the Black Lives Matter Movement/Movement for Black Lives, documenting roots in Black feminist and Black queer politics. She situates the contemporary activism squarely in a Black radical tradition, one that is anticapitalist, internationalist, and focused on some of the most marginalized members of the Black community. Ransby brings to her analysis the perspective of historian and participant-observer, as she maps the movement, profiles many of its lesser-known leaders, measures its impact, outlines its challenges, and looks toward its future.
THE AUTHOR: Barbara Ransby is a Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of African American Studies, History, and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she also directs the campus wide Social Justice Initiative. Dr. Ransby is author of the prize winning Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (University of North Carolina Press, 2003) and Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson (Yale University Press, 2013) as well as editor of Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society.
Ransby was an initiator of the African American Women in Defense of Ourselves campaign in 1991, a co-convener of The Black Radical Congress in 1998, and a founder of Ella’s Daughters, a network of women working in Ella Baker’s tradition. She currently serves on the coordinating committee of Scholars for Social Justice and works with the R3 (Resist. Reimagine. Rebuild.) Coalition in Chicago.
For further information, contact Elsa Barkley Brown, Departments of History and Women’s Studies, at [email protected].
0200 Symons Hall
Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois at Chicago
Barbara Ransby discusses her book, Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the 21st Century (University of California Press, 2018).
THE BOOK: In her new book, award-winning historian and longtime activist Barbara Ransby outlines the scope and genealogy of the Black Lives Matter Movement/Movement for Black Lives, documenting roots in Black feminist and Black queer politics. She situates the contemporary activism squarely in a Black radical tradition, one that is anticapitalist, internationalist, and focused on some of the most marginalized members of the Black community. Ransby brings to her analysis the perspective of historian and participant-observer, as she maps the movement, profiles many of its lesser-known leaders, measures its impact, outlines its challenges, and looks toward its future.
THE AUTHOR: Barbara Ransby is a Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of African American Studies, History, and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she also directs the campus wide Social Justice Initiative. Dr. Ransby is author of the prize winning Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (University of North Carolina Press, 2003) and Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson (Yale University Press, 2013) as well as editor of Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society.
Ransby was an initiator of the African American Women in Defense of Ourselves campaign in 1991, a co-convener of The Black Radical Congress in 1998, and a founder of Ella’s Daughters, a network of women working in Ella Baker’s tradition. She currently serves on the coordinating committee of Scholars for Social Justice and works with the R3 (Resist. Reimagine. Rebuild.) Coalition in Chicago.
For further information, contact Elsa Barkley Brown, Departments of History and Women’s Studies, at [email protected].
