Today! "Black Stories of Freedom"

With James B. Haile III and Alessandra Raengo

Event Time: 11am PT/2pm ET/7pm UK/8pm CET

Black Stories of Freedom
James B. Haile III in conversation with Alessandra Raengo

In this event, James B. Haile III will trace how Black speculative fiction responds to enslavement, racism, colonialism, and capitalism, and how it reveals a life beyond social and political alienation. Looking at Black life through the lens of speculative fiction, he will help us to explore alternative worlds and spaces while remaining squarely rooted in present-day struggles. In so doing, he will rethink historical and contemporary Black experiences as well as figures such as Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry Dumas, and Toni Morrison. Offering new ways to grasp the meanings and implications of Black freedom, Haile invites us to reimagine history and memory, time and space, our identities and ourselves. You can find out more and register here.