Upcoming Talks, 2010-2011
During the year 2010-2011 I will be presenting several pieces of my current book project for academic audiences
"The (Ir)relevance of Passing: Nineteenth-Century Literary Tropes in Twenty-First-Century American Racialism,"
Second Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference on Race, Monmouth University, New Jersey
November 2010
"The Right to a Happy Ending: Loving, OMB Categories, and the Mulatto Millenium"
American Studies Association in San Antonio, Texas
November 2010
“What’s Blood Got To Do With It? African American Protest and the Problem of the
Color Line."
Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas
April 2010
Past talks and interviews
| Date: | Nov. 2008 |
| Place: | Dartmouth College, New Hampshire |
| Event: | "Just Because I Am a Librarian, That Doesn’t Mean I Have to
Dress Like One’: Race and Identity in Belle da Costa Greene’s Careert" |
| Date: | Sept. 8, 2007 |
| Place: | Niles District Library, Niles, MI |
| Event: | Book talk and signing for An Illuminated Life |
| Date: | June 26, 2007 |
| Place: | The Pierpont Morgan Library, Manhattan, New York |
| Event: | "Meet the Author". |
| Date: | March 26, 2007 |
| Place: | St. Mary’s College, South Bend, IN |
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| Date: | February 17, 2007 |
| Place: | Douglass Community Association, Kalamazoo, MI |
| Event: | Southwest Michigan Black Heritage Society. |
| Date: | May 17 2001 |
| Place: | National Public Radio, |
| Event: | Talk of the Nation. Earl Lewis and I discussed our co-authored book, Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White (Norton, 2001) Link to the story. |