25th Annual Black Experiences Lecture

Ben Vinson, IIIBen Vinson III, Johns Hopkins University
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
7:00pm, LC Forum

"Black Synergies: Surveying Afromexican History with African American Linkages "

This talk aims to provide an historical overview of the African presence in Mexico from the period of the Conquest through the independence era. Beginning with the advent of the new Mexican republic in the 1820s, dynamic interactions began with the United States, which marked a turning point in black history.

The convergence of transnational experiences--the emergence of a form of transnational blackness--will be highlighted. The presentation concludes by exploring the synergies between African-American history and Afromexican history. Co-sponsored by the Latin American Studies program and the history department.

All are welcome and encouraged to attend.


Since 1987, Bucknell University has organized an annual Black Experiences Lecture.
Lectures in recent years include:

2010/11

Michelle M. Wright (Northwestern University)
"Black, But Not Like You: Race and Representation in the Age of Obama"

2009/10

Jennifer Bloomquist (Gettysburg College)
Looney Coons: Language, Race, and Ethnicity in Animated Film

2008/09

Melissa Harris-Lacewell (Princeton University)
Race and the 2008 Election

2007/08

Michael Gomez (New York University)
African Muslims in the Americas

2006/07

Michael Blakey (College of William and Mary)
New York's African Burial Ground: When the Dust Cleared

2005/06

Deborah Willis (New York University)
Imaging Black Culture

2004/05

Joy James (Brown)
Democracy and Captivity

2003/04

Tricia Rose (UC-Santa Cruz)
Black Cultural Futures: Struggles over Representation, Identity and Community in Hip Hop

2001/02

Wahneema Lubiano (Duke)
Race and Theoretical Hubris: Narrative Utility, Political Discomfort

2001/02

Kendall Thomas (Columbia)
AIDS, Race and Sexual Democracy

2001/02

Lewis Gordon (Brown)
Studying Black Folk in An Age of Disciplinary Decadence

2000/01

Christopher Edley, Jr. (Harvard)
Beyond the Black-White Paradigm: Multi-ethnic Complications in Civil Rights Struggles

In the 1990s,Bucknell hosted Cornel West (1991), Mary Helen Washington (1992), Angela Davis (1994), Michele Wallace (1995), and Kimberle Crenshaw (1998).