| A White Historian Confronts American Slavery |
The Chicago Women's Alliance is sponsoring Dr. Susan Strasser, an award-winning historian and Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, to lead this open and thoughtful discussion.
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“A White Historian Confronts American Slavery” is the first in a series of illustrated talks entitled “A White Historian Reads Black History,” by Dr. Susan Strasser of the University of Delaware. Dr. Strasser began to develop this series in response to the murders at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (2015) and the growth of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
Dr. Strasser's premise that the role of slavery was a central institution in American economic development, and that its attendant horrors were more awful than most Americans want to believe, are just the starting point for this discussion. We hope to provide an opportunity to thoughtfully explore and address contemporary issues of race and racism with which many of us are currently grappling.
Dr. Strasser's work has been praise by the New Yorker for "...retrieving what history discards: the taken-for-granted minutiae of everyday life."
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Event Information
EVENT DATE:
Sunday, Sep 18 2016 at 1:00pm - 3:00pm [ iCal ]
LOCATION:
Meeting House of the Friends Meeting of Washington
2111 Florida Ave NW
Washington, DC 20008
Look Who's Coming:
Wynter Allen
Stephanie Berry
Megan Buskey
Vivien Clair
Soren Dayton
Christina Farnsworth
Jason Goitia
Gaea Honeycutt
Agnieszka Jones
Rachelle Large
Barbara Lipsky
Sabrina McCarthy
Francine McKenna
Karla McLean
Democracy Fund
Aracely Munoz Petrich
Randolph Sim
Arnold Waldman
Stuart Whitaker
Ariel Woods
... a total of 19 guests.
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