Sixth African American Intellectual Thought Symposium

Sixth African American Intellectual Thought Symposium

Date: Friday, April 29, 2011
Time: 3:30-6:00 p.m.
Place: Leon Peters Recreation Center Auditorium
(next to SaveMart Center)

• We Have Come This Far By Faith: Liberation Theology and Destiny in the African American Religious Experience

Introduction: De Anna Reese, Department of History, California State University, Fresno
Keynote: John H. McClendon III, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University
Author: C.L.R. James’s Notes on Dialectics: Left Hegelianism or Marxism-Leninism

• Presentation: “A Conversation with My Christian Brothers: Is God a White Racist?”

Speaker: Pamela Y. Cook, United Theological Seminary
Author: “In Search of Herstyle: A Theory of African American Women’s Politics”

• Presentation: “Obama, Wright, and Faith in America”

Speaker: W.J. Moussa Foster, United Theological Seminary
Author: “Up From Brutality: Ending Sexual Violence in Black Communities,” in Transforming A Rape Culture

• Presentation: “Power of God and the Power of History: My Theological Odyssey to Liberation Theology”

Respondents: Questions and Answers: Fresno State Student Panel

Reception: Smittcamp Alumni House
Sponsored by the Africana Studies Program (funded by IRA-Instructional Related Activities)

For more information please contact: Malik Simba, Coordinator, Africana Studies 278-2832 (maliks@csufresno.edu)