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Adolph Reed Jr.: Black Politics in New Orleans + Beyond
Sites of Resistance Closing Reception
Please join us for the closing reception of Sites of Resistance: An Exhibit Exploring the Geographies + Histories of Social Change in New Orleans. Scholar and writer Adolph Reed, Jr. will give a public leture, Black Politics in New Orleans and Beyond.
Adolph Reed Jr. is currently Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania after having previously been on the faculty at Yale, the New School, the University of Illinois-Chicago, and Northwestern. A native New Orleanian, his distinguished career has included more than 7 books, countless articles and regular columns in magazines like the Nation, the Progressive, and the Village Voice.
Sites of Resistance works to reframe a dominant narrative that has obscured New Orleans’ historical role as a site of intense organizing, legal strategy, labor struggle, and civil rights activism. By elevating lineages and spaces of dissent and marginalized stories of inter-racial collaboration, as well as histories of direct conflict and challenge in contested spaces, we hope to reconnect our audience with the possibilities for making change that have been erased from our civic framework.
Curated by our Public Programs Manager, Sue Mobley, this exhibit and the associated event series are made possible through the generous support of the Surdna Foundation.
Complimentary refreshments provided. Free and open to the public.