Housing Rebels: Black Women and the Right to the City
A lecture by Dr. Keisha-Khan Y. Perry.
Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Time: 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Location: Jefferson-Williams Room, Student Center, Brooklyn College
Keisha-Khan Y. Perry
Keisha-Khan Y. Perry is an associate professor of Africana studies at Brown University, where she specializes in race, gender, and politics in the Americas, urban geography and questions of citizenship, intellectual history and disciplinary formation, and the interrelationship between scholarship, pedagogy, and political engagement. Her first book, Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil (fall 2013, Minnesota Press), is an ethnographic study of black women's activism in Brazilian cities. She currently has three book projects under way: 1) Evictions and Convictions: The Gendered Racial Logic of Black Dispossession in New York City; 2) The Historical Paradox of Citizenship: Black Land Ownership and Loss in the Americas; and 3) Anthropology for Liberation: Research, Writing and Teaching for Social Justice.
