"When a Black Man
Attempts to Become a Man"
Black Masculinities & the 20th Century Black Freedom Struggle
Thursday, April 18
12:00pm - 1:00pm ET
Lecture by D'Weston Haywood. Q&A with Zoom audience to follow.
About D'Weston Haywood:
D’Weston Haywood is an Associate Professor of History at Hunter College. He is a historian of twentieth century American History with research and teaching interests in Black protest and protest thought, Black masculinity, Black Power, and intersections of Black culture, Black politics, and Black public spheres.
His first book, Let Us Make Men: The Twentieth-Century Black Press and a Manly Vision for Racial Advancement (UNC 2018), reinterprets the Black press as a tool of Black men’s leadership, public vocalization, gender and identity formation, and space for the construction of ideas of ‘proper’ Black masculinity that shaped the 20th Century Black freedom struggle to wage a fight for racial justice and black manhood.
Hosted via Zoom by the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies (visit us!).
D'Weston Haywood
Let Us Make Men
About the program:
This program is organized by the Murphy Institute and Student & Community Affairs at CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies and made possible through the generous support of LaGuardia Community College and the New York City Council LGBT and Queer Caucus. The program is co-sponsored by the Black Male Initiative Leadership Program at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies.
