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\u201cFlorynce \u2018Flo\u2019 Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical,\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n

on\u00a0Wednesday, April 27\u00a0<\/strong>at\u00a012:30pm<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0the Dolores Huerta Room in South Hall 1623<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Sherie M. Randolph,\u00a0<\/strong>UCSB\u2019s Ella Baker Visiting Professor in the Department of Black Studies\u00a0and Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, will discuss her recently published book:<\/p>\n

The former Associate Director of the Women\u2019s Research & Resource Center at Spelman College, she has received several grants and fellowships for her work, most recently being awarded fellowships from Emory University\u2019s James Weldon Johnson Center and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.<\/p>\n

Randolph\u2019s book,\u00a0Florynce \u201cFlo\u201d Kennedy<\/em>:\u00a0The Life of a Black Feminist Radical<\/em>\u00a0(University of North Carolina Press, 2015), examines the connections between the Black Power, civil rights, New Left, and feminist movements.<\/p>\n

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Letters from Langston: A Public Lecture and Reading<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Please join us on\u00a0Thursday<\/strong>,\u00a0February 25<\/strong>\u00a0at\u00a05:30PM\u00a0<\/strong>at\u00a0South Hall 2623<\/strong>\u00a0(The Sankey Room<\/strong>)\u00a0as editors\u00a0Evelyn Crawford<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0MaryLouise Patterson<\/strong>\u00a0discuss their book\u00a0Letters from Langston:\u00a0<\/em>From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare\u00a0and Beyond<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>(University of California Press). The editors will share memories of \u201cUncle Lang,\u201d their activist parents, and their meticulous compilation of the edition.<\/p>\n

Guest presenters Geoffrey Jacques, Stephanie Batiste, Natasha O\u2019Neill, and Christopher Williams\u00a0will read passages\u00a0from the collection of correspondences. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.\u00a0\u200b<\/p>\n

From the official press release:<\/p>\n

\u201cLetters from Langston<\/em>\u00a0is a collection of unguarded and candid confidences\u2014both personal and\u00a0political\u2014between American literary giant, and leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance,\u00a0Langston Hughes and four of his closest African American friends, Louise Thompson\u00a0Patterson, William L. Patterson, Matt N. Crawford, and Evelyn Graves Crawford. The four\u00a0exchanged letters with Hughes for nearly forty years; three were important leftist political figures\u00a0and active members of the Communist Party. Like Hughes, all were investigated and harassed by\u00a0the F.B.I., and in the case of William L. Patterson, imprisoned for political reasons.<\/p>\n

Letters from Langston<\/em>\u00a0begins in 1930 and spans the succeeding decades, ending shortly before\u00a0Hughes\u2019s death in 1967. The two couples share their lives of political activism and the everyday\u00a0joys and sorrows of family life with their friend Langston. He, for his part, savors their\u00a0affections, companionship, and support during his own struggles as an often-misunderstood \u2018literary sharecropper.\u2019 This distinctive volume of correspondence captures stories of friends and\u00a0family, living in an era of uncertainty and sharing a vision of an idealized world\u2014one without\u00a0hunger, war, racism, and class oppression.<\/p>\n

Evelyn Louise Crawford, a retired arts administrator and consultant, and MaryLouise Patterson, a pediatrician in clinical practice, are the daughters of Langston Hughes\u2019s cherished\u00a0friends\u2026\u00a0Hughes was a frequent\u00a0guest in the homes of the two families and an \u2018uncle\u2019 to both girls who knew him from their\u00a0respective childhood years in California and New York.\u201d<\/p>\n

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PassingSolo: From Book to Play to Passing Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n

On\u00a0Tuesday, October 20<\/strong>\u00a0at\u00a02:00pm<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0South Hall 2635.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nancy Davis-Bellamy, co-founder of the Towne Street Theater, will be discussing her one-woman show\u00a0Passing Solo<\/em><\/strong>, based on Nella Larsen\u2019s famous Harlem Renaissance novella\u00a0Passing<\/em>.<\/p>\n

An alumna of American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and Lincoln Center Directors Lab West, Davis-Bellamy\u2019s directing credits include \u201cNevis Mountain Dew,\u201d \u201cPassing,\u201d \u201cMadwoman of Chaillot,\u201d \u201cFive on the Blackhand Side,\u201d \u201c30 Love,\u201d \u201cMedals,\u201d and more.<\/p>\n

Also an actor, she won the NAACP Theatre Award for \u201cPassing\u201d which she also conceived and has appeared in the films \u201cMenace 2 Society,\u201d \u201cThe Court Martial of Jackie Robinson,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m Gonna Git You Sucka,\u201d \u201cThe Five Heartbeats,\u201d and \u201cHollywood Shuffle.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Power of North American Urban Textures (As Seen from a Large European Postmetropolis)\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n

On Monday, October 19 at 5:00pm-6:30pm in the Sankey Room (South Hall 2623).<\/p>\n

Dr. Buchenau\u2019s past work has explored the \u201cso-called \u2018postracial turn\u2019 in recent North American writings, the diverse forms of literary and cultural transfers and exchanges informing literary production in North America, and the cultural and political work of stereotypical and typological representations of minority groups in texts, maps and visual art.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Buchenau is also one of the directors of the Research Training Group \u201cCity Scripts: Condensation, Inversion, and Assemblage in North American Urbanity,\u201d which focuses on \u201csystematic insights into how textual and historical processes have operated in North American scenarios of (de)urbanization and thus have also impacted global developments and phenomena.\u201d<\/p>\n

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