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An American Story: Tulsa’s Instructive Tale of Trauma, Violence and Freedom

Karla Slocum (UNC Chapel Hill) and Jovan Lewis (UC Berkeley) will engage themes of Freedom and Black Placemaking, Violence and Dispossession, and Reparations and Black Futures.

9/28/2021
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
Intended Audience(s): Alumni, Faculty, Postdoc, Staff, Students-Graduate, Students-Undergraduate
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

Mirroring HBO's “Watchmen", the School House Anti-Racism Experience (SHARE) will begin by exploring the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, a two-day war waged by White residents of Tulsa against the Black residents of the Greenwood district of Tulsa, a portion of town frequently referred to as “Black Wall Street.” While horrific, the Tulsa Race Massacre should be viewed as part of an enduring American tradition of physical, economic and political violence visited upon Black people. Using Tulsa as a departure point, Karla Slocum (UNC Chapel Hill) and Jovan Lewis (UC Berkeley) will engage in a conversation, moderated by Darius Scott (Dartmouth), that will examine Freedom and Black Placemaking, Violence and Dispossession, and Reparations and Black Futures.

SHARE Overview: As part of our national reckoning with systemic racism, the School House Anti-Racism Coalition (SHARC) is offering the School House Anti-Racism Experience (SHARE), a series of anti-racist events for the Dartmouth Community that are inspired by HBO’s Emmy-Award-winning series “Watchmen.” Set in 2019 and based on the 1986 DC comic of the same name, HBO’s “Watchmen” reimagines and remixes the Watchmen universe through an origin story rooted in the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. This timely and prescient series will serve as a rich source of inspiration for creative and engaging programming centered on issues related to anti-Black racism, White nationalism & White supremacy, policing & police violence, and social & economic justice.

 

 

For more information, contact:
Craig Sutton
craig.j.sutton@dartmouth.edu
Permanent URL to this event: https://history.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=64810

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