Trayvon Martin and the Rebirth of a Nation: Race and Gender Politics in Today’s Media
Date:Monday, April 23, 2012
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Tulane University
Jones Hall in Room 102
Uptown Campus
TRAYVON MARTIN AND THE REBIRTH OF A NATION: RACE AND GENDER POLITICS IN TODAY’S MEDIA
Elizabeth Méndez Berry is a journalist who has written about culture, education and criminal justice for the Washington Post, Vibe, The Nation, Latina and Time. “Love Hurts," her investigative article on domestic violence in the hip hop industry, won ASCAP's Deems Taylor award for music reporting. She has been an editor at Vibe magazine and is an adjunct professor of music journalism at NYU. An op-ed she wrote for New York’s El Diario helped spur the country’s first ever city council hearings on street harassment, in 2010. In his book Decoded, Jay-Z cited an essay of hers as inspiring the song “P.S.A.” on The Black Album.
Mark Anthony Neal is the author of five books, including What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1998), Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (2002), and New Black Man (2005). He has lectured on hip-hop and gender around the country. Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Duke University, Neal hosts the weekly webcast Left of Blackas well as his blog NewBlackMan. Looking for Leroy: (I)Legible Black Masculinities (2012) is his forthcoming book.
Joan Morgan is the author of When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: My Life as a Hip-Hop Feminist. Morgan is a widely sought after lecturer and commentator on hip-hop and feminism. An award-winning journalist, a provocative cultural critic and a self-confessed hip-hop junkie, she began her professional writing career freelancing for The Village Voice before having her work published by Vibe, Madison, Interview, MS, More, Spin, and numerous others. Formerly the Executive Editor of Essence, she’s taught hip-hop journalism at Duke University, and has been a visiting scholar at Vanderbilt University.
Jasiri X is an independent hip-hop artist who emerged on the national scene with the powerful hit song “Free The Jena 6.” He is the creative force behind the groundbreaking internet video series This Week With Jasiri X, a program that cleverly uses hip-hop to provide social commentary. From the controversial viral video “What if the Tea Party was Black?” to the hard hitting hilarity of “Republican Woman Stay Away From Me,” the series has garnered critical acclaim. Jasiri is also a founding member of the anti-violence group One Hood, and the founder of the New Media Academy. The first Hip-Hop artist to receive the August Wilson Center for African American Culture Fellowship, Jasiri X has performed internationally
Bakari Kitwana is a journalist, activist and political analyst whose commentary on politics and youth culture have been seen on CNN, Fox News (the O’Reilly Factor), C-Span, PBS (The Tavis Smiley Show), and heard on NPR. He is CEO of Rap Sessions and Senior Media Fellow at the Harvard Law based Think Tank, The Jamestown Project. His 2002 book The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture has been adopted as a coursebook in classrooms at over 100 colleges and universities. The former Executive Editor of The Source and the former Editorial Director of Third World Press, he has taught in the political science department at the University of Chicago and is co-founder of the 2004 National Hip-Hop Political Convention. Currently a visiting scholar at Columbia College’s Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, Hip-Hop Activism in the Obama Era (Third World Press, 2012) is his forthcoming book.
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Sponsored by: Multicultural Affairs Office, Black Student Union (TBSU)
Admission: Free
Attendance: Open to the public
Open to: Alumni, Faculty, Graduate students, Parents, Prospective undergrads, Staff, Undergraduates, Visitors
Tickets: Not required
For more information contact Desirée Anderson via email to danders7@tulane.edu or by phone at 504-865-5181
