Office of Diversity and Inclusion Events
Bookmark: Adam Mansbach
November 7th, 2007 - 7:00pm, Alumni Hall
Join the African American Student Alliance in reading ANGRY BLACK WHITE BOY and then join us for a conversation with the author on the appropriation of black culture.
Adam Mansbach's most recent book is the critically-acclaimed bestseller Angry Black White Boy, or The Miscegenation of Macon Detornay (Crown, 2005), a satire about race, whiteness and hip hop that has already been added to more than thirty college and high school curricula. Mansbach’s next novel, The End of the Jews, will be published in 2007 by Spigel & Grau/Random House. It was one of the first acquisitions by the new Random House division, and will be among the first books they publish.
Mansbach is the founding editor of the pioneering '90s hip hop journal Elementary, an Artistic Consultant to Columbia University's Center for Jazz Studies, and a contributor to publications including The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, JazzTimes, Wax Poetics, and The Best Music Writing 2004. He has recently been nominated for the 2006 Young Lions Award and the Granta Best American Writers Under 35 list. Angry Black White Boy was recently named a Best Book of 2005 by the San Francisco Chronicle, and garnered an Honorable Mention in the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Books Award.
A dynamic public speaker whose lectures combine elements of spoken-word, hip hop, comedy, and traditional scholarship to address the complexities of race, hip hop, literature, and popular culture, Mansbach has spoken on college campuses across the country.
A hip hop artist whose debut album Stand for Nothing, Fall for Anything was released by Upshot Records in 2005, Mansbach teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Martin Luther King Commemoration & Convocation
Wednesday January 15th - 3:00pm, Rosenberger Auditorium
Representaive Sabrina Sojourner
Representative Sabrina Sojourner is a nationally recognized educator on diversity and multiculturalism. Having been elected by a whopping 83% of the vote,Sabrina represented the District of Columbia in the U.S. House of Representatives where in her non-voting position she lobbied not only for Statehood for the District of Columbia, but impacted other legislators on a whole spectrum of issues, though as one of few African-American women and the first open lesbian ever elected and to Congress, Rep. Sojourner is no stranger to trail-blazing.
She is also a widely published author whose most recent work is a collection of poems entitled Psychic Scars and Other Mad Thoughts. Sabrina is also a nationally recognized educator on diversity and multiculturalism. As past Director of Diversity Programs and Women of Color Programs for the National Organization for Women, she has developed a variety of programs, workshops, and presentations that focus on building bridges of understanding across differences, including race, gender, and sexual orientation.