TALK: TRANSNATIONAL BLACK POLITICS
AND THE LIMITS OF RACIAL REASONING
Michael Hanchard (Northwestern University)
Thursday, April 21 / 4:00 PM / Free
MultiCultural Center Theater
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Michael Hanchard is a Professor of Political Science
and African American Studies at Northwestern University,
where he is also Director of the Institute for Diasporic
Studies. Hanchard is the author of Orpheus and Power:
The Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo,
Brazil, 1945-1988, and the editor of Racial
Politics in Contemporary Brazil (Duke University
Press, 1998). His book Afro-Modernity:Transnational
Black Politics in Ghana, Jamaica, and the United States,
1955-1970, is forthcoming from Oxford University
Press. He is also director of a web interactive pilot
project called “Global Mappings: A Political Atlas
of the African Diaspora” (diaspora.northwestern.edu).
More information: www.newracialstudies.ucsb.edu
Presented by The New Racial Studies Project, MultiCultural
Center, Citizenship and Democracy in the 21st Century
Focus Research Group and Interdisciplinary Humanities
Center.
