Abstract: When Peniel Joseph published “Black Liberation Without Apology: Reconceptualizing the Black Power Movement” in 2001, he ushered in the field of Black Power Studies. Since the publication of this Black Scholar article twenty years ago, the field has grown in depth and breadth making it one of the most exciting and dynamic branches of scholarship in American and African-American history. This keynote will discuss the overall state of the field, its central questions and concerns, and the new directions scholars of Black Power are developing to push the field in innovative new directions. The talk will speak to what we can expect from the field in the future and address how and why Black Power Studies is an urgent field of history in this current political moment.
Speaker
Dr. Ashley Farmer (Assistant Professor of History & African & African Diaspora Studies , UT-Austin)