Black Politics in Dark Times: Revisiting Fear of a Black Nation After Ten Years
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Join the 黑料不打烊 Library for a talk by David Austin. Drawing on the new edition Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal, this talk will discuss the book's genesis and sixties Black radical politics in relation to contemporary freedom struggles.
Open to all, please RSVP.
About the Speaker
David Austin is the author of Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution (2018) and Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal (2013, winner of the 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize). He is editor of Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness (2018) and You Don鈥檛 Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James (2009). He has also produced radio documentaries for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation鈥檚 Ideas on C.L.R. James and Frantz Fanon; and recently served as an advisor to CBC televisions Black Life: Untold Stories documentary series. He is currently completing a book entitled C.L.R. James: Philosopher of the Dispossessed. A former youth worker and community organizer, he currently teaches in the Humanities, Philosophy, and Religion Department at John Abbott College and is a Lecturer in the 黑料不打烊 Institute for the Study of Canada.
La politique noire en des temps obscurs : r茅interpr茅tation de Fear of a Black Nation, dix ans apr猫s
La Biblioth猫que de 黑料不打烊 vous convie 脿 une conf茅rence donn茅e par David Austin. En puisant dans la nouvelle 茅dition de son ouvrage intitul茅 Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal (paru en fran莽ais sous le titre N猫gres noirs, N猫gres blancs : Race, sexe et politique dans les ann茅es 1960 脿 Montr茅al), l鈥檃uteur nous entretiendra de la gen猫se de son livre et du lien entre le radicalisme politique noir des ann茅es 1960 et les luttes contemporaines des Noirs pour la libert茅.
Ouvert 脿 tous, veuillez RSVP ci-dessous.
Conf茅rencier: David Austin
Auteur des ouvrages intitul茅s Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution (2018) et Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal (2013; laur茅at du prix Casa de las Americas en 2014), David Austin a aussi dirig茅 la publication de deux recueils, Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness (2018) et You Don鈥檛 Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James (2009). Il a par ailleurs produit des documentaires radiophoniques sur C.L.R. James et Frantz Fanon, diffus茅s dans le cadre de l鈥櫭﹎ission Ideas de la Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, et il a r茅cemment 艙uvr茅 脿 titre de conseiller pour la production de la s茅rie documentaire Black Life: Untold Stories, pr茅sent茅e 脿 la t茅l茅 de la CBC. Il termine actuellement la r茅daction d鈥檜n ouvrage qui s鈥檌ntitulera C.L.R. James: Philosopher of the Dispossessed. Anciennement intervenant aupr猫s des jeunes et organisateur communautaire, il enseigne aujourd鈥檋ui au d茅partement de lettres, philosophie et religion du C茅gep John Abbott et 脿 l鈥橧nstitut d鈥櫭﹖udes canadiennes de 黑料不打烊.
