Black History Month: Dr. Joshua Myers Talk

Join us on Friday, February 19th, 2021

10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.

Register in advance for this webinar:

https://asu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BaNDS9CbQHek40ObS_0ecw

Dr. Joshua Myers will present his forthcoming book Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition. Dr. H.L.T. Quan, editor of Cedric J. Robinson: On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance, will join Dr. Myers in the discussion. 

 For ASU students interested in joining a virtual “fireside chat” with Dr. Myers from noon to 1 pm following his book talk, please email Jeanne Colquette Jeanne.Colquette@asu.edu

 Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition

Cedric Robinson – political theorist, historian, and activist – was one of the greatest black radical thinkers of the twentieth century, whose work resonates deeply with contemporary movements such as Black Lives Matter.

 In this powerful work, the first major book to tell the story of Cedric Robinson, Joshua Myers shows how Robinson's work interrogated the foundations of Western political thought, modern capitalism, and the changing meanings of race. Tracing the course of Robinson's journey from his early days as an agitator in the 60s against the US's reactionary foreign policy to his publication of such seminal works within Black Studies as Black Marxism, Myers frames Robinson's mission as one that aimed to understand and practice resistance to "the terms of order." In so doing, Robinson excavated the Black radical tradition as a form of resistance that imagined that life on wholly different terms was possible.

 As the USA enters the 20s, the need to continue that resistance is as clear as ever, and Robinson's contribution only gains in importance. This book is essential reading for anyone wanting to learn more about it.”

Joshua Myers is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University.  He is the author of We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989. In addition to serving on the board of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations and the editorial board of The Compass: Journal of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations, he works with the DC area collectives, Positive Black Folks in Action and the DC Black Power Chronicles. His research interests include Africana intellectual histories and traditions, Africana philosophy, critical university studies, and disciplinarity. His work has been published in Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, The Journal of African American Studies, The Journal of Pan African Studies, The African Journal of Rhetoric, The Human Rights and Globalization Law Review, Liberator Magazine, and Pambazuka, among other literary spaces. 

Sponsored by ASU School of Social Transformation, ASU Institute for Humanities Research, and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences