CUNY Black~Puerto Rican~Third World Feminist Studies Now with Johanna Fernández, Carmen Kynard, & Vani Kannan
Fri, Nov 13, 2020
6:00 PM–8:00 PM
Watch the video recording for this event here:
CUNY
remains a vital epicenter of scholar-organizers who hone contemporary
strategies by recovering the historical legacies of Black~Puerto
Rican~Third World Feminist Studies and movements that emerged in the
1960s and ’70s.
We will hear about Johanna Fernández‘s new book The Young Lords: A Radical History,
as well as from Vani Kannan on a cultural history of the Third World
Women’s Alliance, and from Carmen Kynard on CUNY Black feminist
literacies. The Young Lords: A Radical History was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2020. Bonus! Use coupon code 01DAH40 to save 40% on the book purchase.
This event is organized as part of Conor Tomás Reed’s residency at Wendy’s Subway, Radiating Black~Puerto Rican~Feminist Studies from the City University of New York to the Americas and the Caribbean, and is co-sponsored by Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative from the Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
About the speakers:
Johanna Fernández is Associate Professor of History at Baruch College (CUNY) and author of The Young Lords: A Radical History. Dr. Fernández’s Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) lawsuit against the NYPD, led to the recovery of the “lost” Handschu
files, the largest repository of police surveillance records in the
country, namely over one million surveillance files of New Yorkers
compiled by the NYPD between 1954-1972, including those of Malcolm X.
She is editor of Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal
and writer and producer of the film, Justice on Trial: the Case of
Mumia Abu-Jamal. Her awards include the Fulbright Scholars grant to the
Middle East and North Africa, which took her to Jordan; and a National
Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in the Scholars-in-Residence
program at the Schomburg Center. She directed and co-curated, ¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York, an exhibition in three NYC museums cited by the New York Timesas
one of 2015’s Top 10, Best In Art. Fernández received a B.A. in
Literature and American Civilization from Brown University and a Ph.D.
in U.S. History from Columbia University. She’s the host of A New Day,
WBAI’s morning show, from 7-8am, M-TH, at 99.5 FM in New York.
Vani
Kannan is Assistant Professor of English at Lehman College (CUNY),
where she teaches courses in composition, literature, and creative
writing; co-directs Writing across the Curriculum; and serves on the
steering committee for Women’s and Gender Studies. Vani’s research,
writing, and organizing draw inspiration from radical
transnational/women-of-color feminisms, pedagogies, literacies, and
cultural productions. Her work on post-9/11 hate crimes and South Asian
cultural politics in the U.S. has appeared in Studies on Asia and Enculturation; an article based on her her archival research on the Third World Women’s Alliance is forthcoming in Writers: Craft & ContextRadical Teacher. Her creative writing has appeared in journals including Alba: A Journal of Short Poetry and Mobius: The Journal of Social Change.
Carmen Kynard
is the Lillian Radford Chair in Rhetoric and Composition and Professor
of English at Texas Christian University. She interrogates race, Black
feminisms, AfroDigital/African American cultures and languages, and the
politics of schooling with an emphasis on composition and literacies
studies. Her award-winning book, Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black
Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacy Studies, makes
Black Freedom a 21st century literacy movement. Her current projects
focus on young Black women in college, Black Feminist/Afrofuturist
imaginatiom, and AfroDigital Humanities learning. Carmen traces her
research and teaching at her website, “Education, Liberation, and Black
Radical Traditions.”
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Sobre el evento
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Este evento incluirá subtítulos inglés en vivo.
CUNY
sigue siendo un epicentro vital de académicas-organizadoras que
perfeccionan las estrategias contemporáneas recuperando los legados
históricos de los estudios y movimientos feministas negros,
puertorriqueños y del Tercer Mundo que surgieron en las décadas de 1960 y
1970.
Escucharemos sobre el nuevo libro de Johanna Fernández The Young Lords: A Radical History(Los
jóvenes señores: una historia radical), así como de Vani Kannan sobre
una historia cultural de la Alianza de Mujeres del Tercer Mundo y de
Carmen Kynard sobre CUNY alfabetizaciones feministas
afro-descendientes.
The Young Lords: A Radical History fue publicado por University of North Carolina Press en 2020.
¡Bono! Use el código de cupón 01DAH40 para ahorrar un 40% en la compra del libro.
Este evento se organiza como parte de la residencia de Conor Tomás Reed en Wendy’s Subway, Radiando
Estudios Afro-descendientes~Puertorriqueñxs~Feministas de la
Universidad Pública de Nueva York a las Américas y el Caribe.