AFRICANA STUDIES AND RESEARCH CENTER

CORNELL UNIVERSITY

CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO A

SYMPOSIUM CELEBRATING AFRICANA’S 40TH ANNIVERSARY

“LOOKING BACK/MOVING FORWARD:
ORIGINS AND INSTITUTIONALIZATION
OF THE AFRICANA/BLACKSTUDIES MOVEMENT”

OCTOBER 30, 2009
2:00–4:30PM

SPEAKERS:NOLIWE ROOKS
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, CENTER OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY.
Dr. Rooks is the author of White Money/Black Power: The Surprising History of African American Studies and the Crisis of Race and Higher Education (2007) which chronicles the origins of the Black studies movement and recreates the social and political contexts of the discipline's history, paying particular attention to its past reliance on white philanthropy and involvement. Her other books include Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African American Women (1996) and Ladies' Pages: African American Women's Magazines and the Culture That Made Them (2004).

FABIO ROJAS
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, INDIANA UNIVERSITY.
Dr. Rojas received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 2003. His main research interest is organizational analysis and its intersections with political sociology. His book, From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), uses data from the black studies movement to show how social movements generate lasting organizational change. He has also published in journals such as Social Forces, Rationality and Society, and the Journal of Institutional Economics.

DISCUSSANTS:
CAROLE BOYCE DAVIES
PROFESSOR, AFRICANA STUDIES AND RESEARCH CENTER AND ENGLISH DEPARTMENT, CORNELL UNIVERSITY

ROBERT L. HARRIS, Jr.
PROFESSOR, AFRICANA STUDIES AND RESEARCH CENTER, CORNELL UNIVERSITY

MODERATOR:
RICHÉ RICHARDSON
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, AFRICANA STUDIES AND RESEARCH CENTER, CORNELL UNIVERSITY

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC