Robin D.G. Kelley

Monday, March 11, 2002

Day of Reckoning: Dreams of Reparations
Curriculum discussion with Robin D.G. Kelley for undergraduate students in the School of Education

12:15 to 2 p.m., Occidental Lounge, Student Center.

Academia and Social Responsibility: The New World Community
A Student Life/Student Government forum with Robin D.G. Kelley and student panelists

6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Gold Room, Student Center
    

Tuesday, March 12, 2002

This Battlefield Called Life: Black Feminist Dreams
A Women's Studies/Women's Center forum With Robin D.G. Kelley for students in Women's Studies 12: Introduction to Women's Studies: Sex, Gender, and Power

12:15 to 1:30 p.m., Occidental Lounge, Student Center

The Globalization of African American History
Curriculum discussion with Robin D.G. Kelley for graduate students in the School of Education

4:30 to 6:30 p.m., Gold Room, Student Center
    

Wednesday, March 13, 2002

Jazz and Freedom Go Hand in Hand
Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture by Robin D.G. Kelley

5:30 to 6:30 p.m., George Gershwin Theater
    

Thursday, March 14, 2002

Race and the American Labor Movement
Meeting with Robin D.G. Kelley for students in History 27: The Industrial Revolution; Africana Studies 12.6: African American History from 1860; and Core Studies 3: People, Power, and Politics

9:25 to 10:40 a.m., Occidental Lounge, Student Center

Thelonious Monk and Modern Jazz (Concert)
Salim Washington Ensemble with Robin D.G. Kelley, piano
Professor Kelley will introduce each musical number

12:15 to 1:30 p.m., George Gershwin Theater

For additional information about events, please call the Office of the President, (718) 951-5671

Kelley is the author of the prize-winning books Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (University of North Carolina Press, 1990), Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class (The Free Press, 1994), and Into the Fire: African Americans Since 1970 (Oxford University Press, 1996). He is coeditor, with Sidney J. Lemelle, of Imagining Home: Class, Culture, and Nationalism in the African Diaspora (Verso Books, 1994); coeditor, with Earl Lewis, of To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans (Oxford University Press, 2000); general editor, with Earl Lewis, of the eleven-volume Young Oxford History of African Americans (Oxford University Press); and coauthor, with Howard Zinn and Dana Frank, of Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century (Beacon Press, 2001). His collection of essays, Yo' Mama's DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (Beacon Press, 1997), was selected as one of the year's top ten books by the Village Voice.

Kelley's articles have appeared in a wide range of anthologies, newspapers, and journals, including Black Music Research Journal, the Voice Literary Supplement, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The Monthly Review, One World, ColorLines, Lenox Avenue, Callaloo, Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, Rolling Stone, The American Historical Review, American Visions, The Boston Review, The Journal of American History, Metropolis, Utne Reader, The African Studies Review, Fashion Theory, Social Text, The Radical History Review, and frieze: contemporary art and culture.

Robin Kelley spent his early years in Harlem and later moved west. He received his B.A. in history from California State University at Long Beach; he holds an M.A. in African history and a Ph.D. in United States history from U.C.L.A. Before joining the faculty at New York University in 1994, Kelley taught at Southeastern Massachusetts University, Emory University, and the University of Michigan.

Kelley is married to Diedra Harris-Kelley, a visual artist, and they have a daughter, Elleza.