FEBRUARY 9
Scot Brown
Ph.D. Cornell
Assistant Professor, Department of History, UCLA

“Cultural Nationalism and Black Power Studies:
  Reflections on the US Organization”

In celebration of his new book:
Fighting For US: Maulana Karenga, The US Organization, and Black Cultural Nationalism
(New York: NYU Press, 2003)

Place: Africana Center, 310 Triphammer Road
Date: February 9, 2004
Time: 4:30 PM
Book Signing & Reception to follow. Open to the Public

MARCH 2
Manthia Diawara

Reading from his new book
We Won’t Budge: An African Exile in the World
(BasicCivitas Books, 2003)

Place: Africana Center, 310 Triphammer Road
Date: March 2, 2004
Time: 4:30 PM
Book Signing & Reception to follow. Open to the Public

MARCH 16
Deborah Willis

Reading from her new book
A Small Nation of People
(Amistad Press, 2003)

Place: Africana Center, 310 Triphammer Road
Date: March 16, 2004
Time: 4:30 PM
Book Signing & Reception to follow. Open to the Public

APRIL 1
Ekwueme Michael Thelwell
Professor of Literature and Writing in the W.E.B. Du Bois
Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Reading from his new book
READY FOR REVOLUTION:
The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
co-authored with Kwame Ture
Published by Scribner, 2003

Place: Africana Studies & Research Center
Date: April 1 2004
Time: 4:30 PM
Book Signing & Reception to follow. Open to the Public

APRIL 16
Edwidge Danticat

Reading from her new book
The Dew Breaker
(Knopf, 2004)

Place: Kaufman Auditorium
Date: April 16 2004
Time: 7:30 PM
Book Signing & Reception to follow. Open to the Public