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Keynote for "Picturing the Black Racial Imaginary" Symposium
Inspired by the exhibition Dawoud Bey: Elegy, we invite you to explore the complexities of the Black experience in America and parallels between the past and present. Clint Smith will deliver “How the Word Is Passed: Reckoning with Our Past to Build a Better World” as a featured keynote for the two-day symposium “Picturing the Black Imaginary.”
Across the United States, innumerable places with direct ties to the enslavement of African Americans are hidden in plain view. The symposium and this evening’s presentation illustrate how the history of enslavement and bondage has shaped contemporary economic and socio-political landscapes.
Informed by scholarship, trips to different historical sites, and oral histories, Smith outlines how these sites resonate with history and reckon with—or fail to reckon with—their relationships to the past. Drawing on his award-winning book How the Word Is Passed, Smith illuminates how the past is an ever-present part of our current lives as well as a pathway forward into the future and how it challenges us as citizens to take responsibility to document, learn from, and account for this history.
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Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/2132815-0
Website: https://go.evvnt.com/2132815-2
