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Diasporic Back Chat: The Inter-War Activist Strategies of Black Nationalist Women

February 3 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

CSAAD Book Launch Lecture Event

Dr. Natanya Duncan

Monday, February 3rd, 2025

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

20 Cooper SQ Floor 3 Suite

NEW YORK, NY 10003

Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/92704020760


During the 1920s and 1930s, women members of the largest social justice movement of the 20th Century, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), publicly challenged the myriad forms of oppression that affected them globally.This talk will explore strategies used by women of the UNIA in fashioning a trans-Atlantic dialogue as evidenced in the Negro World newspaper, personal correspondences, and government records to highlight their role in shaping the contours of Black Nationalism and pan-Africanism in the early 20th Century.

This event will be highlighting the new book: An Efficient Womanhood: Women and the Making of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. The book will be available for Purchase & Signature at event for $29.95.

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Natanya Duncan an Associate Professor of History. A historian of the African Diaspora, her research and teaching focuses on global freedom movements of the 20th and 21st Century. Duncan’s research interest includes constructions of identity and nation building amongst women of color; migrations; color and class in Diasporic communities; and the engagements of intellectuals throughout the African Diaspora.

Details

Date:
February 3
Time:
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Venue

20 Cooper Square
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