BLACK RADICALISM IN THE UNITED STATES
April 14-15, New York City
SATURDAY, APRIL 14 | Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office
9:30am
Welcome Notes
9:45-11:30am Panel 1 | Disputes and Dialectics
The Dialectics of Black Nationalism | Albert Scharenberg (RLS–NYC)
From Black Reconstruction to Black Liberation: The Radicalization of William Edward Burghardt
DuBois,1931-1961 | Charisse Burden-Stelly (Carleton College)
C.L.R. James and the Hidden Disputes within the Black Radical Tradition | Matthew Quest (Arkansas)
“Black Radical Knowledge Production in the Academy: Africana Existentialism v. Afropessimism” | LaRose T. Parris (LaGuardia Community College)
11:45-1:00pm Panel 2 | Thought Leaders of Black Radicalism
Gendering the Black Radical Tradition: Grace P. Campbell’s Role in the Formation of a Radical Feminist
Tradition in African American Intellectual Culture | Lydia Lindsey (North Carolina Central University) “My Kind of Communist”: Marxism, Nationalism, and Richard Wright’s Radical Imagination | Shana A.
Russel (Rutgers University)
Claudia Jones: Recentering Communism on Black Women’s Issues | Gregory Bekhtari (Paris Nanterre
University, France)
1:00-2:00pm Lunch Break
2:00-3:45pm Panel 3 | The “Black Belt” Nation
Early Black Socialists and Radical Internationalism in the United States, 1850-1919 | Charles Holm (University of Texas at Austin)
“Black Belt Nation”: Populism, Labor and The Growth of Radicalism within the African American Civil Rights Movement, 1870-1935 | Willie Mack (SNHU)
“The Communist International and the Fight Against Black Oppression in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s” | Jacob A. Zumo (New Jersey City University)
Hosea Hudson and African American Communism in the “Black Belt” | Frank Jacob (Queensborough Community College)
4:00-5:15pm Panel 4 | Black Radicals, Socialism, and Communism
Marvel Cooke, Black Feminist Beacon of Conduct in the Depression Era | Laura Hapke (Pace University)
This City in Itself: Harlem’s Socialists and the Challenge to New Deal Liberalism | Robin Dearmon Muhammad (Ohio University)
“Reds, Rights, and Firing Lines”: The Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Anti-Communist Crusade 1936-1949 | David C. Rothmund (College of Charleston)
5:30-6:15pm Roundtable | Black Radicalism in Arts, Literature, and Press
5 minutes of short impulse presentations followed by a roundtable, discussing today’s role of Black Radicalism in arts, literature, and press.
The Racial Imaginary Institute: An Ivory Tower on the Front Line of Racial Struggle | Yulia Tikhonova (St. John’s University)
Harlem Renaissance as Dialectical Gambit of Black Radicalism | A. Shahid Stover (Brotherwise Dispatch)
The Printed Legacy of the Black Liberation Movement | Brad Duncan (University of Pennsylvania, AFSCME Local 590)
Fascination and Failure: Communist Ideas, the Black Nationalists Movement, and Jazz in 1960s and 1970s America | Rüdiger Ritter (TU Chemnitz, Germany)
6:15pm Dinner
6:45-7:15pm Worker Writers School
Poetry Presentations
SUNDAY, APRIL 15 | The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
9:30-10:00am Interludium: Fifty Years after Martin Luther King Jr.
Religion and Black Radicalism | Michael Honey (University of Washington Tacoma) (TBC)
10:00-11:15am Panel 5 | The Legacy of the Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party in Chicago | Ethan Young (Left Labor Project)
“To Build the World Anew: Black Anti-imperialism in the era of Black Power” | Robyn C. Spencer (Lehman College)
The Film Reviews of the Black Panther Party | Kazembe Balagun (RLS–NYC)
11:30-12:45pm Panel 6 | The International Dimensions of Black Radicalism
Black, Dutch & Radical: exploring the politics of black Dutch radicals | Mitch Esasjas (Black Archives
in Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Making Differences Work and Fight: The Black Movement(s) in Germany | Folashade Ajayi and Tahir
Della (Initiative Black People in Germany)
“Black Fire” – Conceptualizations of Black Liberation and engaged views of African and Black aesthetics in the USA and South Africa | Lena Dallywater (Graduate School “Global and Area Studies” at the Research Academy Leipzig, Germany)
12:45pm Closing Remarks
LOCATIONS
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York O ce
275 Madison Avenue (entrance on 40th St.) Suite 2114
New York, NY 10016
The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library New York University
70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012