Roundtable Discussion:
The New
Black Power Studies
Komozi Woodard (Sarah Lawrence College)
Author of A Nation within a Nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and
Black Power Politics (University of North Carolina Press, 1999)
Jeanne Theoharis (Brooklyn College)
Coeditor (with Komozi Woodard) of Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles
outside the South, 1940-1980 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2003)
Heather Ann Thompson (UNC-Charlotte)
Author of Whose Detroit: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern
American City (Cornell University Press, 2002)
Moderated by Matthew Countryman (U-M)
Author of Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005)
Friday, Sept. 22, 2006
2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
1014 Tisch Hall
Presented by the Metropolitan History Workshop and co-sponsored by the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, the Program in American Culture, and the African-Americanist Caucus in American Culture.