Join The Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council and the Puerto Rican Cultural Center for a dynamic lecture and community discussion...
"RECLAIMING THE BLACK RADICAL TRADITION IN THE CARIBBEAN” with Dr. William Santiago-Valles
WHEN: Friday, March 3rd, 5:30 to 7:00p.m.
WHERE: Café Teatro Batey Urbano, 2620 W. Division
ADMISSION: Free!
INFO: 312-422-5580
www.thepublicsquare.org
Puerto Rican scholar-activist WILLIAM SANTIAGO-VALLESis professor of Africana Studies at Western Michigan University. He has lived, traveled, and organized all over Latin America including Puerto Rico and Brazil and his work focuses primarily on race and radicalism.
His most recent work highlights little known activist political and cultural organizations like the SISTREN Women’s History Theatre Collective in Jamaica, the Red Thread Women's Development Programme in Guyana, and the Society for the Promotion of Education and Research (SPEAR) in Belize.
His dissertation entitled “Memories of the Future: Maroon Intellectuals from the Caribbean and the Sources of their Communication Strategies, 1925-1940” traced the pioneering work of Fernando Ortiz, Patricia Galvao, Elma Francois, Richard Hart, and C. L. R. James throughout the Caribbean.
His more recent publications include “Producing Knowledge for Social Transformation” in The Black Scholar and “CLR James: Asking Questions of the Past” in Race and Class.
Dr. Santiago-Valles’ talk will focus on "Reclaiming the Black Radical Tradition in the Caribbean.”
A Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council event
02-22-2006
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