STRANGERS IN THE VILLAGE:
Imagining (Young) Black Bodies in America
Caludia Rankine
Marlon James
Claudia Rankine is a professor of English at Pomona College in California. Rankine is the recent recipient of an NAACP Image Award, and the author of five collections of poetry including theNational Book Award finalist Citizen, which was described by the New Yorker as an "especially vital book for this moment in time," and by The New York Times as "insistently topical, with references to Trayvon Martin and stop-and-frisk police tactics, and concerned with intimate moments when racial impasses spring up between friends and colleagues."
Born in Jamaica in 1970, MARLON JAMES is a Professor of English at Macalester College in Minnesota. James is the author of A Brief History of Seven Killings, which the Wall Street Journal called "a fictional, kaleidoscopic take on the 1976assassination attempt on reggae star Bob Marley and its aftermath." Publisher's Weekly declared that the novel "should be required reading," and The New York Times calls James a"prodigious talent."
RANKINE and JAMES will read from their works and engage in a conversation that will attempt to connect issues of race, justice, and violence with the 2014-2015 Teachers Institute theme, "Love Pedagogy: Disrupting the Violence AgainstYoung Bodies."
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