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Conversations. An African-American Author Series Featuring Marita Golden, Danzy Senna, Nelson George and Donald Bogle All events at The Graduate Center City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street New York City For more information or to register, please call 212 817-8215 or visit http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp Entire series: $50; $25 STUDENTS; FREE TO CUNY Individual sessions: $15; $7 FOR STUDENTS; FREE TO CUNY MARITA GOLDEN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10 7–9 PM DON’T PLAY IN THE SUN: ONE WOMAN’S JOURNEY THROUGH THE COLOR COMPLEX. Marita Golden's new book is a hard-hitting meditation on the role that color plays among African Americans and in wider society. Her memoir offers a nuanced look at identity and the irrepressible and graceful will of the human spirit. Peppering her narrative with “Postcards from the Color Complex,” reminiscences of some of the author’s most powerful experiences, Golden takes us inside her world, and inside her heart, to show what a half-century of intraracial and interracial personal politics looks like. Join the author for a lively discussion of the color complex that is sure to resonate for many women. DANZY SENNA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 7–9 PM Danzy Senna will discuss her new book, SYMPTOMATIC, a novel of acute psychological tension that explores unsettling questions of identity and the much-anticipated follow-up to Senna's best-selling debut, Caucasia. Caucasia was a highly acclaimed debut that went on to become a contemporary classic. In Symptomatic, she takes questions of identity a step further, in a beautifully written novel that is at once suspenseful, erotic, clever, and, as The New York Times wrote of Caucasia, "deeply intelligent." NELSON GEORGE, MARCH 7, 2005, 7–9 PM Since hip hop's emergence from the streets of New York, it has become a dominant economic/cultural force, adopted by whites in the States and by youth all over the world. But what effect has that had on the evolution of black culture here, both in terms of the work being created here and the marketing of that work? Has hip hop's dominance so overwhelmed the imagination of the race that we now only see ourselves through a hip hop prism? Through discussion and video clips, Nelson George will discuss these questions. DONALD BOGLE, MARCH 9, 2005, 7–9 PM BRIGHT BOULEVARDS, BRIGHT DREAMS: THE STORY OF BLACK HOLLYWOOD. Written by one of the foremost authorities on African Americans in film this book explores the entertaining and at times shocking history of Black Hollywood, uncovering the audacious manner in which Blacks made a place for themselves in an industry that originally had no place for them. Hear the behind-the-scenes stories of such denizens as Bill (Bojangles) Robinson, Lena Horne, Sammy Davis, Jr., Hattie McDaniel, and the mysterious Madame Sul-Te-Wan. | ||
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The Marita Golden event is scheduled for February 16th at 7pm. Join us! |
