Professor Nadia Alahmed, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies.
How to Build a Fire: James Baldwin 2-day Convening
Friday, October 4, 2024 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Celebrating the centennial birth of James Baldwin, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture hosted a two-day convening in collaboration with the Institute for Research in African American Studies and the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.
Panelist: Fearless: Being A Public Intellectual in the 21st Century
“It is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction." Blackprint: A Rap on Race: Margaret Mead and James Baldwin | Nadia Alahmed, PhD, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Dickinson College and author of “The Shape of the Wrath to Come: James Baldwin’s Radicalism and the Evolution of His Thought on Israel” and Marina Magloire, PhD, Assistant Professor of English, Emory University, author of the recent "Moving Towards Life" exploring the correspondence of June Jordan and Audre Lorde, will reflect on their recent essays then join in conversation highlighting the evolution, care and bravery of Baldwin’s public discourse, and what is needed to meet the current moment; with Brittney Cooper, PhD, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies, Rutgers-New Brunswick. Professor Cooper’s books include Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women. She is a frequent commentator on MSNBC and NPR.
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Nadia Alahmed, a Palestinian scholar, activist, and Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Middle Eastern Studies at Dickinson, told me that “once Baldwin changed his mind about Israel, he never stopped criticizing it. Baldwin was one of the very first prolific black American voices to recognize Israel for what it really is.”