Black Studies Book Club Series
Every semester, the Africana Studies Program hosts a two-day Black Studies Book Club event, focused on a recently published text that has shifted the conversation in the discipline.
Each installment of the book club includes a public lecture by the book's author, which is free and open to the Tulane and New Orleans communities—and includes free copies of the book purchased from the Community Book Center, a small neighborhood business in the city's 7th Ward. The following day, the club holds a smaller, more intimate "book-club style" conversation, limited by advance registration but engineered to bring together some of the diverse constituencies of the program—including Tulane students, faculty and staff, community members, and students and faculty from local schools and universities.
Spring 2025 Author:
Marlon B. Ross
Sissy Insurgencies
Lecture
Thursday, April 3, 2025
6:00-7:30 pm
Stone Auditorium, Room 210, Woldenberg Art Center
Book Club Discussion
Friday, April 4, 2025
11:30 am–12:30 pm
(Lunch Included)
RSVP's will be emailed location
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Previous Black Studies Book Club Series
Fall 2024 Author:
Frank B. Wilderson III
Afropessimism
Lecture
Thursday, October 24, 2024
6:00-7:30 pm
Qatar Ballroom, Lavin-Bernick Center
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Book Club Discussion
Friday, October 25, 2024
11:30 am–12:30 pm
(Lunch Included)
RSVP's will be emailed location
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Spring 2024 Author:
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
The Disordered Cosmos
Lecture
Thursday, February 22 2024
6:00-7:30 pm
Diboll Gallery, The Commons Room 300
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Book Club Discussion
February 23, 2024
Lunch will be provided from 11 am-12 pm
Book discussion will follow from 12-1 pm
RSVP's will be emailed location
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Fall 2023 Author:
Christina Sharpe
In the Wake On Blackness and Being
Lecture
Thursday, October 12 2023
6:00-7:30 pm
Qatar Ballroom - Lavin-Bernick Center
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Book Club Discussion
October 13, 2023, 11:30 am-12:30 pm
Diboll Gallery, The Commons
Spring 2023 Author:
Tina M. Campt
Listening to Images
Lecture
Thursday, March 16, 2023
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Stone Auditorium 210, Woldenberg Art Center
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Book Club Discussion
Friday, March 17, 2023
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Fall 2022 Author:
Namwali Serpell
The Old Drift
Lecture & Reception
Thursday, October 27, 2022
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
The Commons, Room 300
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Book Club Discussion
Friday, October 28, 2022
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
(Lunch Included)
Spring 2022 Author:
Dr. Rebecca Hall
Wake
Lecture & Reception
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts Featuring Dr. Rebecca Hall
April 25, 2022, 6 p.m.
Public Fireside Chat
moderated by Dr. Laura Roseanne Adderly
March 24th, 2022, 6 p.m.
Book Club Discussion
March 25th, 2022, 11:30 a.m
Fall 2021 Author:
Rinaldo Walcott
The Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Black Freedom
Lecture & Reception
October 20th, 2021, 6 p.m.
Stone Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
Book Club Discussion
Join Rinaldo Walcott in discussion
October 21st,2021, 4 p.m. | LBC 202