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SUMMARY:Pilipinx Essential Workers: Colonization\, Delano\, and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Eastwind Books and the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) present an online panel conversation with authors Enrique de la Cruz\, Patty Enrado\, Tony Robles\, and Juanita Tamayo Lott moderated by MT Vallarta \nRegister for access to Zoom event \nPanelists:\nDr. Enrique de la Cruz received his Ph.D. in Philosophy (Mathematical Logic) from UCLA. His most recent publication is the Forbidden Book: The Philippine American War in Political Cartoons\, which is a collection of political cartoons from 1898-1907\, the period of the Philippine-American War\, and which he co-authored with Abe Ignacio\, Jorge Emmanuel\, and Helen Toribio. \nPatty Enrado’s debut novel\, A Village in the Fields\, was shortlisted for the Seventh William Saroyan International Prize for Writing\, Fiction\, in 2016. The historical novel about Filipinos and the American farm labor movement was published by Eastwind Books of Berkeley. \nTony Robles\, “The People’s Poet” was born in San Francisco and is the nephew of Filipino-American poet\, historian and social justice activist Al Robles. He was a shortlist nominee for poet laureate of San Francisco in 2017 and the recipient of the San Francisco Art Commission individual literary artist grant in 2018. \nA child of the Manong/Manang Generation\, Juanita Tamayo Lott is a trailblazer in Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies. Her latest book is Golden Children: Legacy of Ethnic Studies\, SF State. A Memoir. \nModerator: MT Vallarta is a poet and Ph.D. candidate in Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Riverside. \nEastwind Books Multicultural Services (EBMS) is a 501(3)c non-profit dedicated to the promotion and accessibility of Asian American and Ethnic Multicultural Literature. Our events are for educational purposes and we appreciate your tax deductible donations. EBMS is the community education arm of Eastwind Books of Berkeley which is comprised of a dedicated staff of booksellers\, artists\, poets and community workers.
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SUMMARY:Joshua Bennett in conversation with Tongo Eisen Martin\, Jesse McCarthy\, and Simone White
DESCRIPTION:discussing Joshua Bennett’s new book \nBeing Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man \npublished by Belknap Press/Harvard University Press \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Register Here) link to be posted soon \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \n\n\n\nA prize-winning poet argues that blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman\, man and animal. \nThroughout U.S. history\, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons\, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once Myself delves into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that have emerged from this experience. Each chapter tracks a specific animal figure—the rat\, the cock\, the mule\, the dog\, and the shark—in the works of black authors such as Richard Wright\, Toni Morrison\, Zora Neale Hurston\, Jesmyn Ward\, and Robert Hayden. The plantation\, the wilderness\, the kitchenette overrun with pests\, the simultaneous valuation and sale of animals and enslaved people—all are sites made unforgettable by literature in which we find black and animal life in fraught proximity. \nJoshua Bennett argues that animal figures are deployed in these texts to assert a theory of black sociality and to combat dominant claims about the limits of personhood. Bennett also turns to the black radical tradition to challenge the pervasiveness of antiblackness in discourses surrounding the environment and animals. Being Property Once Myself is an incisive work of literary criticism and a close reading of undertheorized notions of dehumanization and the Anthropocene. \n\nJoshua Bennett is the author of The Sobbing School\, winner of the National Poetry Series and a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. He has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Ford Foundation\, and MIT and was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. He is the Mellon Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. \n\n\nTongo Eisen-Martin is the author of Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Books\, 2017) and someone’s dead already (Boostrap Press\, 2015) and his poetry has been featured in Harper’s Magazine and New York Times Magazine. Heaven Is All Goobyes was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize and awarded the California Book Award for Poetry\, an American Book Award\, and a PEN Oakland Book Award. He is also a movement worker and educator whose work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He has been a faculty member at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University\, and his curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, “We Charge Genocide Again!” has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He’s from San Francisco. \n\nJesse McCarthy is assistant professor jointly appointed in the Department of English and the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. His research is concerned with the intersection between politics and aesthetics in African American literature\, postwar or post-45 literary history\, and Black Studies. His dissertation The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War\, 1945 – 1965 argues for a reinterpretation of black literary aesthetics in the early Cold War and for the value of a discrete periodization of that era. He is also interested in modernism\, film\, poetics and translation. While a graduate student at Princeton he founded a Digital Humanities project based on the Sylvia Beach archives held at Princeton’s Firestone Library called Mapping Expatriate Paris. His writing on culture\, politics\, and literature has appeared in The New York Times Book Review\, The Nation\, Dissent\, The New Republic and n+1. I  also serve as an editor at The Point. \nassistant professor jointly appointed in the Department of English  and the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. My research is concerned with the intersection between politics and aesthetics in African American literature\, postwar or post-45 literary history\, and Black Studies. My dissertation The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War\, 1945 – 1965 argues for a reinterpretation of black literary aesthetics in the early Cold War and for the value of a discrete periodization of that era. I am also interested in modernism\, film\, poetics and translation. While a graduate student at Princeton I founded a Digital Humanities project based on the Sylvia Beach archives held at Princeton’s Firestone Library called Mapping Expatriate Paris. My writing on culture\, politics\, and literature has appeared in The New York Times Book Review\, The Nation\, Dissent\, The New Republic and n+1. I  also serve as an editor at The Point.\nSimone White is the author of Dear Angel of Death\, Of Being Dispersed\, and House Envy of All the World and of the poetry chapbooks Unrest and\, with Kim Thomas\, Dolly. Her writing has appeared in publications including Arttforum\, BOMB\, e-flux journal\, the Chicago Review\, and the New York Times Book Review. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. \nCritical Praise for Being Property Once Myself \n\n“This trenchant work of literary criticism examines the complex ways 20th- and 21st-century African American authors have written about animals. In Bennett’s analysis\, Richard Wright\, Toni Morrison\, Jesmyn Ward and others subvert the racist comparisons that have ‘been used against them as a tool of derision and denigration.’… An intense and illuminating reevaluation of black literature and Western thought.“—Ron Charles\, The Washington Post \n“Bennett writes so beautifully that it hurts. Imagine a world of animals—rats\, cocks\, mules\, and dogs—that prompt renewed ways of seeing\, thinking\, and living beyond cages or chains. These absorbing\, deeply moving pages bring to life a newly reclaimed ethics\, and black feeling beyond the claims of property or propriety.“—Colin Dayan\, author of With Dogs at the Edge of Life and The Law Is a White Dog \n“Being Property Once Myself is destined to be an event. Exhilarating and original\, it is as much a work of literary history as it is of literary theory\, as much a poetic invocation as it is critical intervention\, and as much about animals as it is about people\, elegantly uniting the many singularities that constitute\, collectively\, black literary culture.”—Akira Mizuta Lippit\, author of Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife \n“A tremendously illuminating study of how black writers wrestle with black precarity. Bennett’s refreshing and field-defining approach shows how both classic and contemporary African American authors undo long-held assumptions of the animal–human divide.”—Salamishah Tillet\, author of Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination
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SUMMARY:SHAUN KING presents MAKE CHANGE: HOW TO FIGHT INJUSTICE\, ​DISMANTLE SYSTEMIC OPPRESSION\, AND OWN OUR FUTURE
DESCRIPTION:** PLEASE NOTE **\n>  This event will be virtual and free of charge. Connection information is forthcoming. Please save the date and join us!\n>  Order here to have the book delivered to your door. \nAs a leader of the Black Lives Matter movement\, Shaun King has become one of the most recognizable and powerful voices on the front lines of civil rights in our time. In Make Change\, King offers an inspiring look at the moments that have shaped his life and considers the ways social movements can grow and evolve in this hyper-connected era. He shares stories from his efforts leading the Raise the Age campaign and his work fighting police brutality\, while providing a roadmap for how to stay sane\, safe\, and motivated even in the worst of political climates. By turns infuriating\, inspiring\, and educational\, Make Change will resonate with those who believe that America can — and must — do better. \n—– \nShaun King was recently named by Time Magazine as one of the 25 most important people in the world online. He covers civil rights issues for the Intercept and is writer-in-residence at the Fair Punishment Project at Harvard Law School. Previously\, King served as a pastor\, teacher\, and full time motivational speaker in Atlanta’s juvenile justice system. In 2019\, King launched the media platform The North Star\, which has hundreds of thousands of members and subscribers. His podcast The Breakdown has remained one of the most popular news and politics category on Apple with over 100k subscribers. He lives in Brooklyn with his family. \nPlease note:\n​\nThis is a free\, all-ages\, virtual event that begins at 7pm PST. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference.
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