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Please join the Ursula C. Schwerin Library for a clip screening and discussion of the film Slavery by Another Name on Wednesday, February 26th at 2:30 PM. The screening and discussion will take place in the recently renovated Multimedia Projection Room in the Library, Rm. A432.
Slavery by Another Name is a PBS documentary based on the book by Douglas A. Blackmon. The film tells the stories of men charged with crimes like vagrancy, often guilty of nothing, who were bought and sold, abused, and subjected to sometimes deadly working conditions as unpaid convict labor.
The discussion will be led by Prof. Dionne Bennett, Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Department at New York City College of Technology. Bennett holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles where she studied in the Psychocultural Studies and Medical Anthropology Program.She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in Anthropology and Literature from Yale University. She was previously the Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of Detroit Mercy and an Assistant Professor of African American Studies and a Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies at Loyola Marymount University. She has been a fellow of Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, the Ford Foundation, and the UCLA President’s Office. She has been an associate of the The Hiphop Archive at Harvard University since its founding in 2002 by Marcyliena Morgan. She is the author, with photographer Matthew Jordan Smith, of Sepia Dreams: A Celebration of Black Achievement through Words and Images, co-editor of Revolutions of the Mind: Cultural Studies in the African Diaspora Project 1996-2002 (CAAS Publications, University of California Los Angeles, 2003), and a contributor to Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities (NYU Press, 2010).
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