ROUNDTABLE
DISCUSSION ON "BLACK FEMINISMS" TO
BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 1
|
M.
Jacqui Alexander
Kathleen
N. Cleaver
Maryse
Condé
Oyèrónké
Oyewùmí
Michele
Wallace
|
New
York, NY, April 22, 2002 – A roundtable
discussion on "Black Feminisms" will
take place on Wednesday, May 1, at 7:00 p.m.
in Lower Level McIntosh at Barnard College (entrance
at 117th and Broadway). The panel, which will
address the current status and future of Black
Feminism will be moderated by Janet Jakobson,
Director of the Barnard Center for Research
on Women. Participants include M. Jacqui Alexander,
Kathleen N. Cleaver, Maryse Condé, Oyèrónké
Oyewùmí, and Michele Wallace.
This event is open to the public and a reception
will follow.
M. Jacqui Alexander is the Fuller-Maathai Chair
of the department of Gender and Women’s
Studies at Connecticut College. She has co-edited
Feminist Genealogies: Colonial Legacies,
Democratic Future. She is on the board of
Signs and Feminist Review, and
has received numerous awards including a recent
Guggenheim Fellowship for research on memory
and Kongo spiritual practices in the Caribbean.
Her forthcoming book of essays is titled Pedagogies
of Crossing.
Kathleen Neal Cleaver, former Barnard student
and graduate of Yale Law School, was the first
woman on the Black Panther Central Committee.
Cleaver is currently a Senior Lecturer at Emory
University School of Law. Cleaver’s writings
have been published widely in newspapers, journals
and books, including Critical Race Feminism,
The Black Panther Party Reconsidered
and Liberation, Imagination and the Black
Panther Party, which she co-edited.
Maryse Condé is the author of more than
ten award-winning novels, including Moi,
Tituba and La vie scélérate.
Her novels and articles have been extensively
translated, and her research interests include
the Négritude movement, Feminism, Caribbean
Studies, and Literary Criticism. Condé
is the chair of French and Romance Philology
at Columbia University.
Oyèrónké Oyewùmí
is the author of The Invention of Women:
Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses,
winner of the Distinguished Book Award of the
American Sociological Association in 1998 and
runner-up for the Herskovits Prize. She is an
Associate Professor in the Sociology Department
at SUNY, Stony Brook Campus.
Michele Wallace, a Professor of English at the
City College of New York, is the author of Black
Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, which
was published when Wallace was twenty-six. She
is completing two interrelated books: Olympia’s
Servants: The Problem of the Visual in Afro-American
Culture and Passing, Lynching and Jim
Crow in U.S. Cinema.
The event is sponsored by The Pan-African Studies
Program, The Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship
Program, The Office of the Dean of Studies,
The Center for Research on Women, Barnard College
Counseling Services, and the Office of Multicultural
Affairs, Barnard College.
Contact:
Michelle Hand, The Pan-African Studies Program,
212-854-3577
Petra Tuomi, Public Affairs, 212-854-7907
Caroline Bogucki/Alyssa Scheinmel, Public Affairs,
212- 854-2037
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