Black Authors and Educators Panel

Tuesday, February 25 at 5:30 PM

Chaucer’s Books Presents – The New Negro Now: New Perspectives on the Black Renaissance in 2024. Pulitzer Prize (biography) and National Book Award (non-fiction) winning author and UCSB professor emeritus Dr. Jeffrey Stewart will headline a panel of Black authors and UCSB educators exploring history and our current era.

The publication of The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke (2018) made visible that in the 1920s Black writers emerged whose writings led to the period being called the Harlem Renaissance. While usually narrated as a literary movement, the Harlem Renaissance forged connections among sociology, education, physics and queer identity that continue to shape creative work today.  Please join us for a discussion of some recent creative publications in education, science, history and the novel by five UCSB scholars and authors, our own little renaissance in Santa Barbara.

Featuring –

• Jeffrey Stewart, MacArthur Endowed Chair, Black Studies, Author: The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
• Clifford Johnson, North Hall Chair, Physics, Author: The Dialogues: Conversations About the Nature of the Universe
• Hui-Ling Malone, Assistant Professor of Education, Author: Dismantling Disproportionality in Practice: A Guide to Fostering Culturally Responsive Districts and Schools
• Matthew Richardson, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, Author: Black Canvas: A Campus Haunting and Angels of Mercy, Light, and Fog
• France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology, Author: Geek Girls: Inequality and Opportunity in Silicon Valley, Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023