Kendi is a New York Times best-selling author and award-winning historian. Farmer earned her BA from Spelman College and a PhD in African American Studies from Harvard University. She is also a leader in the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) and a regular blogger for Black Perspectives. She has also contributed to popular outlets like The Independent and the History Channel. Farmer’s scholarship has appeared in numerous venues including The Black Scholar and The Journal of African American History.
She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the African American Studies Program at Boston University. Kendi and Farmer will discuss the book’s insights about the rise and fall of the black power movement, black women's myriad contributions to the black freedom struggle, and how histories of this period can inform activism and race relations today.Īshley Farmer is a historian of black women’s history, intellectual history, and radical politics. Complicating the assumption that race and gender constraints relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Remaking Black Power demonstrates how black women fought for more inclusive understandings of Black liberation and social justice during the Black Power movement. Farmer about her new book, Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era. Kendi, National Book Award Winner and author of Stamped: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America as he talks with Ashley D. Join Busboys and Poets Books as we welcome Ibram X.
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