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 Yonkers, NY - A Women's History Month Conference entitled, "Black Power, Black Feminism: Black Women's Activism and Development of Womanist/Feminist Consciousness in the Era of Black Power" will be held at Sarah Lawrence College Friday and Saturday, March 7 and 8, in the Heimbold Visual Arts Center.
The keynote speaker is Chana Kai Lee, author of For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer. The program includes over 50 panelists and workshop presenters from academia and civic organizations. The conference is free and open to the public. For more information please call 914-395-2412.
According to Tara James, Associate Director of the Women's History Graduate Program, activism during the Black Power era has traditionally been seen as an almost exclusively male domain. However, today's scholars have discovered Black women's activism before and during the Black Power era, and as a result have begun to reevaluate the entire period.
The conference will inform an understanding of the role Black women played in the Black Power era highlighting their fight for justice not only in terms of race and class, but gender as well. The conference seeks to sustain and enhance new scholarship that redefines the era, bringing the work and effort of women to the center.
The topics of discussion include but are not limited to:
* Women's local and national grassroots organizing
* Women in the Black Arts Movement (literature, poetry, theater)
* Women and Nationalism
* Women' participation in Black Power organizations
* Revolutionary Black Feminism
* Coalition building among women of color
* Legacies of black feminist organizing: third wave and hip hop feminism
The schedule can be found at: http://www.slc.edu/womens-history/conference/Schedule.php
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