UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs is proud to host Ta-Nehisi Coates, author and distinguished writer in residence at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, as the second speaker in our 2020 Phil Lind Initiative series on Thinking While Black.
This event will be moderated by Sara Ghebremusse, Assistant Professsor, Peter A. Allard School of Law.
This event will be live streamed at the link below. The recording will also be posted on the Lind Initiative website for 90 days following the event.
Watch the Livestream starting at 6:00 pm on Feb. 11th
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Learn more about the 2020 Thinking While Black series here.
Blackness as a form, concept and experience, has fundamentally shaped American iconographies, language, media, and cultural productions. This series invites us to consider Blackness as both a culture and a mode of thinking. This series will meditate on the structures of race in North America and will spotlight the seemingly disconnected forms of racial violence that hide in plain sight. How, despite shifts in rhetoric and political policy, have so many forms of racial violence persisted? How, we ask, can we rethink ourselves by understanding our relations to blackness?
Bio: Ta-Nehisi Coates is a distinguished writer in residence at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He is the author of the bestselling books The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, and Between The World And Me, which won the National Book Award in 2015. Ta-Nehisi is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. He is also the current author of the Marvel comics, The Black Panther and Captain America.
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*Artwork Credit: Sandra Brewster
Download the 2020 Phil Lind Initiative Series Thinking While Black Poster
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