2019-2020
COLLOQUIUM SERIES
FALL 2019 Date Speaker
Title & Abstract
9/16
Alvin Tillery “ Performance vs. Power: Is the #BlackLivesMatter Movement Winning?” Department of Political Science, The hundreds of protests that have occurred in the United States under the banner Northwestern University of the Black Lives Matter movement have had a profound impact on debates over
police brutality and other racial and gendered inequalities in the United States. Most scholarly commentaries on the Black Lives Matter Movement have noted how its egalitarian leadership structure, performative repertoires of contention, and technological capacity make it profoundly different from previous movements for racial equality that have emerged from Black communities in the United States. This talk uses survey research, causal inference, and content analysis to explore whether or not these new tactics are translating into victories for the BLM activists in the realms of Black public opinion, the mobilization of African American adherents, and media narratives in African American communities. 9/23
Josh Farrington Black Republicans and the Civil Rights Movement Department of History, This talk explores the relationship between Black Republicans, the GOP., and civil University of Kentucky
rights during the 1950s and 1960s. Farrington argues that Black Republicans prior to the 1980s were participants, and in some instances leaders, of the broad civil rights movement of the 1950s-70s. While their methods differed from the direct-action protests of Martin Luther King Jr., their objectives paralleled those of other middle class Black civil rights leaders. Working within the apparatus of the Republican Party, these men and women believed that strong civil rights legislation could best be obtained in a two-party system in which both parties were forced to compete for the African American vote. Moreover, while this group was often pushed to the sidelines by white Republicans, their continuous and vocal inner-party dissent helped moderate the message and platforms of the Republican Party in the 1950s and 1960s.
9/30
Bettina Love We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching School of Education, , This talk discusses the struggles and the possibilities of committing ourselves to an University of Georgia
abolitionist goal of educational freedom and intersectional justice, so we all can move beyond what Love calls the “educational survival complex.” Abolitionist Teaching is built on the creativity, imagination, boldness, ingenuity, and rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists to demand and fight for an educational system and world where all students are thriving, not simply surviving.
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JWJI ANNUAL REPORT 2019–2020
