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SUMMARY:Uncle Bobbie's X Joshua Myers & Bedour Alagraa - Of Black Study
DESCRIPTION:Join Uncle Bobbie’s as we welcome professors\, Joshua Myers and Bedour Alagraa for a critical discussion  on the role of study and thought.\n\n\nJoin us for an intimate and poignatnt conversation between professors and writers Joshua Myers and Bedour Alagraa that considers the role of study and thought amid the current crisis. \nDrawing from Myers’s Of Black Study and Alagraa’s forthcoming The Interminable Catastrophe the conversation explores the ways that Blackness can more than respond to antagonism but reshape how we understand the terms. \nAn indepth Q&A and book signing will follow the conversation. \nAttendees will get an exclusive in-store discount. \n——– \nAbout the book: \nOf Black Study explores how the ideas of Black intellectuals created different ways of thinking and knowing in their pursuit of conceptual and epistemological freedom. \nJoshua Myers explores the work of thinkers who broke with the racial and colonial logics of academic disciplinarity. Bookended by meditations with June Jordan and Toni Cade Bambara\, the book focuses on how W.E.B. Du Bois\, Sylvia Wynter\, Jacob Carruthers and Cedric Robinson contributed to Black Studies approaches to knowledge production within and beyond Western structures of knowledge. \nEspecially geared toward understanding the contemporary evolution of Black Studies in the neoliberal university\, Of Black Study allows us to consider the stakes of intellectual freedom and the path toward a new world. \n \nBios: \nJoshua Myers is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University. He is the author of Holy Ghost Key\, the winner of the 2023 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize (Broadside Lotus Press\, 2024)\, Of Black Study (Pluto\, 2023)\, Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition (Polity\, 2021)\, and We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 (NYU Press\, 2019)\, as well as the editor of A Gathering Together: Literary Journal. \nBedour Alagraa is an Assistant Professor of Black Political and Social Theory in the department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Currently she’s working on a manuscript entitled The Interminable Catastrophe: Fatal Liberalisms\, Plantation Logics\, and Black Political Life in the Wake of Disaster. \n \n—— \nDoors open at 6pm \nAll sales are final. \nSeating is General Admission. \nChildren older than 5-years old need a ticket for entry.
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LOCATION:Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books\, 5445 Germantown Ave\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19144\, United States
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