IRAAS Conversations-BookTalk
Wednesday March 1, 2023 at 6:00pm
"The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives"
with
Adolph L. Reed, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Political Science-University of Pennsylvania
&
Barbara J. Fields, Professor of History- Columbia University
Moderator: Frank A. Guridy,
Dr. Kenneth and Kareitha Forde Professor of African American & African Diaspora Studies and Professor of History-Columbia University
Registration Required -Please register here http://bit.ly/3Yg829U
Event Location
Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
Joseph Pulitzer World Room, 3rd Floor
2950 Broadway ; New York, NY 10027
Presented in Co-Sponsorship
African American & African Diaspora Studies Department -Columbia University (AAADS)
Jacobin Magazine
Department of History -Columbia University
Center for the Study of Ethnicity & Race-Columbia University(CSER
Institute for Comparative Literature & Society-Columbia University (ICLS)
Institute for the Study of Sexuality & Gender-Columbia University (ISSG)
The School of the Arts-Columbia University (SOA)
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but not a nuanced understanding of everyday life in Jim Crow America. In The South, Adolph L. Reed Jr. — New Orleanian, political scientist, and, according to Cornel West, “the greatest democratic theorist of his generation” — takes up the urgent task of recounting the granular realities of life in the last decades of the Jim Crow South. Reed illuminates the multifaceted structures of the segregationist order. Thanks to his personal history and political acumen, we see America’s apartheid system from the ground up, not just its legal framework or systems of power, but the way these systems structured the day-to-day interactions, lives, and ambitions of ordinary working people. The South unravels the personal and political dimensions of the Jim Crow order, revealing the sources and objectives of this unstable regime, its contradictions and weakness, and the social order that would replace it.
Speaker Bios
Adolph L. Reed Jr. is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his many illustrious publications, he is the author of The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon: The Crisis of Purpose in Afro-American Politics (Yale Press, 1986);W.E.B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism & the Color Line (Oxford University Press, 1997) Stirrings in the Jug: Black American Politics in the Post-Segregation Era (University of Minnesota Press, 1999), and The South: Jim Crow and its Afterlives (Verso). He has been a columnist in The Progressive, The Village Voice, and The New Republic and has written frequently in The Nation, Dissent, nonsite.org, of which he is an editorial board member, and many other academic and popular journals and magazines.
Barbara J. Fields is Professor of History at Columbia University. She specializes in southern history and 19th-century social history. She received her B.A. from Harvard and her Ph.D. from Yale. She is the author of Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century (1985) and coauthor of The Destruction of Slavery (1985), Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War (1992), and Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War (1992).
Frank A. Guridy is the Dr. Kenneth and Kareitha Forde Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the new executive director and senior scholar of the Holder Initiative for Civil and Political Rights. Before the publication of his recent book, The Sports Revolution, he wrote the award-winning Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow (University of North Carolina Press, 2010) and co-edited Beyond el Barrio: Everyday Life in Latino/a America (NYU Press, 2010), with Gina Pérez and Adrian Burgos, Jr.
