Black Experiences Lecture

Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

Jennifer Bloomquist, Gettysburg College
23nd Annual Black Experiences Lecturer

"Looney Coons: Language, Race, and Ethnicity in Animated Film"

Tuesday October 6, 2009
7:00pm, LC Forum


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

2008/09


2007/08



2006/07



2005/06

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

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


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


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).