(NAME-MCE) FW: 40 Year Anniversary: Black Awakening in Capitalist America

[Gradilla, Alexandro]

From: Nelson Maldonado-Torres [mailto:nmt at berkeley.edu]
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 9:59 AM
To: 'Nelson Maldonado-Torres'
Subject: 40 Year Anniversary: Black Awakening in Capitalist America




The Department of Ethnic Studies and its series 1968-1969: On Epistemic and Social Struggles Series, along with the Department of African American Studies Present:



ROBERT ALLEN'S BLACK AWAKENING IN CAPITALIST AMERICA 40 YEARS LATER: ITS SIGNIFICANCE AND RELEVANCE FOR TODAY'S STRUGGLES



DATE: FRIDAY APRIL 10, 2009

Place: Tilden Room (5th floor MLK building)



8:30AM-10:30AM-PANEL 1: "Black Awakening's" Awakening of Liberation Struggles"



Moderator/Discussant Carlos Muñoz (UC-Berkeley)



David Montejano. (UC-Berkeley)

"Robert Allen's Black Awakening and Early Chicano Scholarship"



Andrew Barlow (UC-Berkeley)

"Social Justice and state crisis: Lessons for the future from the 1960s Black Liberation movement."



Kwame Nimako (NINSEE- Institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery and its Legacies and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) "Nkrumah, African Awakening, and Neo-colonialism: How Black America awakened Nkrumah and Nkrumah awakened Black America."



Ronald Williams II" (UC-Berkeley)

"Black (Re) Awakening in Post-Race America: Race, Class and the Internal Colony Model"





10:45AM: 12:45PM- PANEL 2: The Internal (Neo) Colonial Approach



Moderator/Discussant: Michael Omi (UC-Berkeley)



Charles Pinderhughes (Boston College)

 "How Black Awakening in Capitalist America Laid the Foundation for New Internal Colonialism Theory."



Michael Calderon-Zaks (Ithaca College) Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity (CSCRE)



"'Domestic Colonialism:' The Overlooked Significance of Robert Allen's Contributions, 1969-1975."



Roberto D. Hernández (UC-Berkeley)

On the Analytic Import of Black Awakening Across Colonial/Racial Difference



Chris Reid (UC-Berkeley)

"Malcolm X and Robert Allen on Domestic (Neo-)Colonialism and Revolutionary Nationalism, and Black Awakenings as a seminal bridge between the 'organic' and 'traditional' intellectual traditions of activist-scholarship."



Lunch: 12:45PM to 2:00PM



2:00PM-4:00PM-Panel 3: Black Awakening 40 Years Later: Its Relevance for Today



Moderator/Discussant Charles Henry (UC-Berkeley)



Thomas A. Dutton (Miami University-Ohio) "Colony Over-the-Rhine:  Gentrification and Econocide."



Robert Chrisman (The Black Scholar Journal) "The Black Middle Class, 40 years after BLACK AWAKENING IN CAPITALIST AMERICA."



Jared Ball (Morgan University)

"Anti-Colonial Media in the 21st Century"



Lia Bascomb (UC-Berkeley)

Eyes Wide Open: A Case Study Reflecting on Black Awakening.



4:15PM-5:30PM- ROBERT ALLEN 40 YEARS LATER



Keynote Presenter: Nelson Maldonado-Torres (UC Berkeley)

Keynote Speaker: Robert Allen (UC Berkeley)