11:00a—12:30p EST Solo Session
“Black Studies and Black Sexuality Studies: Toward a Shared Generative Discourse and Productive Practice” PRESENTERS
Dr. Valerie Grim - Indiana University “From the Margins to the Middle: Ways An Inclusion of Sexuality in Black Studies Enhance Our Study of African Descended People.” Dr. James Stewart - Penn State University “Black Queer Studies and the evolving Black /Africana Studies Project.” Dr. Maulana Karenga - California State University - Long Beach “Black Studies and Black Sexuality Studies in Creative Tension: Issues of Foundation Disciplinary Commitments and Open-Textured Expansiveness”
Chair: Dr. Maulana Karenga 1:00p—2:30p EST 2 concurrent sessions Session 1
“Womanism and Issues of Identity, Inclusion and Self-Determination” PRESENTERS
Dr. Dorothy Tsuruta - SanFrancisco State University Womanism: Imbuing the Brilliance of the Past in the Present
Dr. Maulana Karenga - California State University - Long Beach A Critical Source of Kawaida Womanism: Ida B. Wells’ Womanly Woman in the World Dr. Kevin Brooks - Michigan State University Womanism, Community Wellbeing, and the Reclamation of Black Girls and Women Chair: Dr. Serie McDougal - University of California Los Angeles
Promoting Academic Excellence and Social Responsibility
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