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SUMMARY:It was a Good Day: Black Optimistic Realism and Law in the United States
DESCRIPTION:Location: Henry Student Center\, 2nd Floor\, Jean and Paul Adams Commons (JPAC) \n\n\n\nA Black History Month Lecture.  \n\n\n\nMembers of the Wilkes community are invited to a free lecture presented by Dr. Scott Hancock\, associate professor of history and Africana Studies at Gettysburg College. \n\n\n\nIn 1992\, artist Ice Cube released the video “It was a good day.” The video ends with Ice Cube\, who has apparently done nothing wrong\, at least on this particular day\, surrounded by an overwhelming show of force by armed police outside his South Central L.A. home. The video\, in some respects\, can be read as an expression of the lack of faith many Black Americans had in the system and philosophy that supposedly undergirds the Great Experiment—the foundation and continued existence of the United States of America. \n\n\n\nThat existence has never been threatened as it was during the American Civil War. And yet\, many African Americans\, from the country’s founding\, through the Civil War\, and into the 21st century\, have attempted to use law as a primary driver for fundamental legal change. This talk\, starting with stories of two women who escaped slavery\, and carrying through to a contemporary Black writer\, wrestles with the question of whether African Americans have been\, and continue to be\, bamboozled or buttressed by having any optimism in law in the United States. \n\n\n\nAfter spending 14 years working with teenagers in crisis\, Dr. Scott Hancock switched careers and earned a Ph.D. in Early American History in 1999. Both careers fuel his desire to understand how African Americans have shaped and been shaped by American law and memory\, and motivate him to tell the stories of people whom society and history have discounted as troublesome or unimportant. He is currently exploring how places like the Gettysburg battlefield can put African Americans and slavery back into the heart of stories told by landscapes and memorials. Some of his scholarly work has appeared in scholarly journals and anthologies\, such as The Civil War and the Summer of 2020\, They Are Dead and Yet Live\, and his book Walk Up The Hill: A College Student’s Guide to Scholar Activism. As part of trying to be a scholar activist\, he has also written for public audiences in local\, regional and national publications\, and welcomes engaging with people in a variety of forums\, including talking with visitors to the Gettysburg battlefield.
URL:https://news.wilkes.edu/event/it-was-a-good-day-black-optimistic-realism-and-law-in-the-united-states/
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SUMMARY:Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series: Brionne Janae
DESCRIPTION:Location: Kirby Hall Salon \n\n\n\n\nThis lecture is part of the annual Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Lecture Series. For more information on this lecture or the lecture series\, please visit the Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series webpage.\n\n\n\n\nBrionne Janae is a poet and teaching artist living in Brooklyn with their two dogs. They are the author of Because You Were Mine (2023) which was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry\, Blessed are the Peacemakers (2021) which won the 2020 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize\, and After Jubilee (2017). Brionne is a 2023 NEA Creative Writing Fellow\, a Hedgebrook Alum and a proud Cave Canem Fellow.
URL:https://news.wilkes.edu/event/allan-hamilton-dickson-spring-writers-series-brionne-janae/
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