2008-2009 Hull Lecturer: The Radical Legacy of Civil Rights and Feminist Movements for Contemporary Progressive Politics
Wednesday February 25, 4 p.m. SRB Multipurpose Room
The 2008 Presidental Election was historic in many respects, signalling the first woman since Shirley Chisholm to make a serious bid for the presidential and vice presidental nominations of both major parties. Two women headed up the third party Green ticket and the final outcome was the election of the nation's first African American president. What does all this mean in terms of how we see the history and evolution of Civil Rights and Feminist Politics in the United States? Have 'we' arrived as a nation in terms of race and gender equity? Barbara Ransby, activist, historian, and author oa an award winning biography of civil rights organizer Ella Baker will address this, and related questions. Barbara Ransby is Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies, African American Studies, and History
Director, Gender and Women's Studies Program, University of Illinois, Chicago.
Barbara Ransby
2007-2008 Hull Lecturer
Linda Gordon
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Impounded Masculinity: Dorothea Lange’s Suppressed Photographs of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
Thursday, January 17, 2008
4:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater
Linda Gordon, Professor of History at New York University
As the U.S. government interned Japanese Americans, the documentary photographer Dorothea Lange recorded the internment. Gordon, an award-winning historian of gender and race, will discuss these photographs that the army impounded and were never published. She will discuss how the camps eroded male power and the particular dispiritedness of some men in Lange’s photos, and relate these images to others that Lange observed and photographed during the depression. |
Cosponsored by the Center for Work, Labor, and Democracy, the Women's Center, the MultiCultural Center, the Deparment of History, and the Department of Asian American Studies.
Archive of Past Hull Lectures in Women and
Social Justice
Dr.
Gwendolyn Mink on Sex, Marriage and Welfare Reform: What About
Single Mothers' Rights?
Lisa
A. Crooms on Back to the Middle - Black Feminist Thought,
Multidimensional Identity and the World Conference against Racism,
Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
"Beggars and Choosers: Motherhood is Not a Class Privilege in America", A Photography Exhibition (curators, Rickie Solinger and Kay Obering)
Vicki L. Ruiz on Big Dreams, Rural Schools: Mexican Americans and Public Education, 1870-1950
Evelyn Nakano Glenn on Coerced Labor: Race, Gender and Caring
Nancy MacLean on Freedom Is Not Enough: The Secret of the Sixties That Transformed America
Pun Ngai on Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace
Linda Gordon on Impounded Masculinity: Dorothea Lange’s Suppressed Photographs of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
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