30th Annual St. Clair Drake Memorial Lecture featuring Robin D.G. Kelley
African & African American Studies (AAAS) at Stanford University presents the annual St. Clair Drake Memorial Lecture featuring Robin D.G. Kelley.
“Black Studies Against Fascism: Then and Now”
Robin D.G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (The Free Press, 2009); Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination—20th Anniversary Edition (Beacon Press, 2022); Yo’ Mama’s Disfunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (Boston: Beacon Press, 1997); Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class (New York: The Free Press, 1994); and Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990). His book, Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012), is based on Kelley’s inaugural St. Clair Drake Lecture, which he delivered in 2003. His essays have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including the American Historical Review, The Nation, Monthly Review, New York Times, Spectre, Signs, Social Text, and the Boston Review, for which he also serves as Contributing Editor. He is currently completing three book projects: Black Bodies Swinging: An American Postmortem (Metropolitan Books), which examines the political economy of state-sanctioned violence and the struggle to preserve Black life; a biography of journalist Grace Halsell titled The Education of Ms. Grace Halsell: An Intimate History of the American Century (Metropolitan); and a general survey of African American history, co-authored with Tera Hunter, Kendra Field, Elizabeth Hinton, and Sherie Randolph.
The lecture will take place at Stanford Memorial Church on Thursday, April 27 at 5:30 PM. Doors open at 5:00 PM. With some exceptions, seating is not reserved.
The St. Clair Drake Memorial Lectures are dedicated to the memory of Professor St.Clair Drake, reowned African American anthropologist and educator, and the founding Director of the Program in African & African American Studies at Stanford University.
St. Clair Drake Memorial Lecture presented by African & African American Studies (AAAS). Visit our website at aaas.stanford.edu for more information about the program.
Co-sponsored by: Department of History, Stanford Humanities Center, Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Black Community Services Center, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Center for African Studies, Dean of Humanities and Sciences, Black Graduate Student Association, Black Student Union, Black Studies Collective, and Critical Studies of Blackness in Education.