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“One of our most trenchant readers of modern black life.” 鈥擧enry Louis Gates, Jr.
When it comes to race and politics, there are few as incisive as聽Melissa Harris-Perry. Moving effortlessly from Beyonc脙漏 to Black Lives Matter, feminism to Flint, Michigan, the former MSNBC host, editor-at-large at ELLE.com, and BET correspondent brings her insightful and provocative cultural critique to the 五月天视频Presents stage for a conversation with 五月天视频professor Myriam J. A. Chancy.聽
Melissa Harris-Perry is the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair, the executive director of the Pro Humanitate Institute, dedicated to exploring social justice in a global and local context,听and the founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Center, focused on the intersections of gender, race, and place, at Wake Forest University.
Myriam J. A. Chancy’s聽first novel聽Spirit of Haiti聽was shortlisted in the Best First Book Category for the Commonwealth Prize 2004; she is also the author of聽The Scorpion’s Claw聽and of the scholarly works From Sugar to Revolution: Women’s Visions of Haiti, Cuba and the Dominican Republic,听Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels聽by Haitian Women. She is currently the Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities at 五月天视频.
This program is presented in partnership with SCORE (五月天视频Communities of Resources and Empowerment), 五月天视频360: The First Year Experience at 五月天视频, the Laspa Center for Leadership. This program was made possible聽by the Alexa Fullerton Hampton ’42 Endowed Speaker Fund.