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Anthropology and African American studies professor from UCLA to speak Tuesday in Canton

Posted 10/17/16

CANTON -- St. Lawrence University will host Jemima Pierre, associate professor of anthropology and African American studies at UCLA, who will deliver the 2016 C.L.R. James lecture at 7 p.m. on …

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Anthropology and African American studies professor from UCLA to speak Tuesday in Canton

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CANTON -- St. Lawrence University will host Jemima Pierre, associate professor of anthropology and African American studies at UCLA, who will deliver the 2016 C.L.R. James lecture at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 18 in Hepburn Hall, room 218.

Pierre’s lecture, titled “Global Blackness and the Legacy of Pan-African Revolt,” will attempt to compel a critical discussion on the politics of global Blackness in a moment of increasing anti-Blackness and growing revolt.

The lecture will draw on the pan-Africanist scholarship of C.L.R. James, specifically his demand for intellectuals and activists to develop an international perspective of the struggles for Black self-determination.

Pierre is the author of "The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race," which won the 2014 Elliot Skinner Book Award in Africanist Anthropology and the 2012 Bevington Fund First Book Grant.

Pierre is currently completing a book, "Race and Africa: Cultural and Historical Legacies," under a publishing contract with Routledge Press.

The C.L.R. James Lecture provides a public opportunity to bring the campus community together to discuss African issues.

James (1901-1989) was an Afro-Trinidadian historian who lived for a time in England and had a major influence on postcolonial literature.

The lecture is sponsored by St. Lawrence University's African Studies program with support from the Center for International and Intercultural Studies and the Department of Global Studies.

Info: 229-5246.