Tag Archives: African American

Isabel Wilkerson with John Stauffer, Reading, 10 April 2013 – Video

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on April 10, 2013.

[The audio and video media from this event are no longer available.]

Isabel Wilkerson is the author of The Warmth of Other Suns, an epic story of the Great Migration, chronicling the journey of over six million black Americans from the South who migrated north and west between World War I and the 1970s. Inspired by her own parents’ migration, she devoted 15 years to the research and writing of the book, interviewing more than 1,200 people along the way. Wilkerson is a former national correspondent and bureau chief at The New York Times.

In this episode she is introduced by John Stauffer and then read from her work. The companion Conversation may be found here.

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You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website; you may also listen to audio recordings of this event there.

Isabel Wilkerson with John Stauffer, 10 April 2013 – Audio

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on April 10, 2013.

[The audio and video media from this event are no longer available.]

Additional photos of this event are available on Flickr.

You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website; you may also view the video recordings of this event there.

Kevin Young with Colson Whitehead, 14 November 2012 – Audio

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on November 14, 2012.

Kevin Young often finds meaning and inspiration for his poetry in African American music, particularly the blues. His seven collections include Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebellion (Knopf, 2011) and Dear Darkness. His Jelly Roll: A Blues, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize. He is the editor of five volumes, including 2010’s The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing. His recent book The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness won the 2010 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and combines essay, cultural criticism, and lyrical chorus to illustrate ways African American culture is American culture. “I don’t mean to taxonomize but to rhapsodize. Take it from me—mean mean mean to be free.”

He is the Atticus Haygood Professor of Creative Writing and English and Curator of Literary Collections and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University in Atlanta.

Additional photos of this event are available on Flickr.

You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website; you may also view the video recordings of this event there.

Michelle Alexander with Liliana Segura, 12 September 2012 – Audio

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on September 12, 2012.

Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar. Her first book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, won the 42nd NAACP Image Award in 2011 for nonfiction and has been featured in national radio and television media outlets including The Bill Moyers Journal and The Tavis Smiley Show.