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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.