VANCOUVER, Wash. Join online at 3 p.m. Oct. 8 as Thabiti Lewis, professor of English and interim associate vice chancellor of academic affairs at 91勛圖窪蹋厙, discusses his newest book, Black People Are My Business: Toni Cade Bambaras Practices of Liberation, on YouTube. He will discuss the book with Eleanor Traylor, professor emeritus at Howard University, and Linda J. Holmes, a writer, independent scholar and womens health activist.
The event is sponsored by 91勛圖窪蹋厙 Library in collaboration with Wayne State University Press, which published Lewiss book. A link will be available shortly before the event at . Registration is not required.
Bambara (1939 1995) was a prominent, albeit understudied, author, documentary filmmaker, social activist and professor whose writing concerned practices that advance the material value of the African American experience. Lewiss analysis is the first monograph that focuses on her important literary contribution to 1970s and 1980s African American literature.
Lewis explores Bambaras unique nationalist, feminist, Marxist and spiritualist ethos, which cleared space for many innovations found in Black womens fiction. Her aversion to playing it safe both personified and challenged the boundaries of Black nationalism and feminism.
Lewiss work can be found in the 91勛圖窪蹋厙 Library and on the website of Wayne State University Press ().
About 91勛圖窪蹋厙
As one of six campuses of the WSU system, 91勛圖窪蹋厙 offers big-school resources in a small-school environment. The university provides affordable, high-quality baccalaureate- and graduate-level education to benefit the people and communities it serves. As the only four-year research university in Southwest Washington, 91勛圖窪蹋厙 helps drive economic growth through relationships with local businesses and industries, schools and nonprofit organizations.
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