TomorrowTalks with Anna Malaika Tubbs: "Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us"

Arizona State University welcomes the New York Times bestselling author Anna Malaika Tubbs  as a guest in its TomorrowTalks series. Tubbs will discuss her new latest book "Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us" in an online event on Wednesday, February 4, 2026 at 6 p.m. Arizona / MST (5 p.m. PDT / 6 p.m. MDT / 7 p.m. CDT / 8 p.m. EDT). 

The conversation will be facilitated by ASU James Wright, Associate Professor in School of Public Affairs. 

The event is free of charge and open to the public; please register to attend.

About the book

"The thing American patriarchy fears most is the inherent power we each possess when we know what we are capable of, when we know what legacies we carry, and when we come together." — Anna Malaika Tubbs

From the founding fathers to the current Supreme Court justices, from the treatment of enslaved women to the American maternal health crisis, from the exclusion of women in the Constitution to the continued lack of an Equal Rights Amendment. Anna Malaika Tubbs brings together academic research, stories of freedom fighters, and her own experience to reveal what is erased in the wake of American patriarchy. 

Read a review of her book on the 19th News. 

About the author

Anna Malaika Tubbs is a New York bestselling author and multidisciplinary expert on current and historical understandings of race, gender, and equity. Her previous book is The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation. Tubbs has published in Time, New York magazine, CNN, Motherly, and the Guardian, among others. She holds a PhD in sociology and masters in multidisciplinary gender studies from Cambridge and a bachelors in medical anthropology from Stanford University.

About the facilitator

James E. Wright II, Ph.D. is an associate professor at Arizona State in the School of Public Affairs and the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. His research specializes in race, justice, equity, policing and organizational management. His research has examined the impacts of body cameras on racial disparities in policing, the impacts of providing public access to police misconduct allegations, police officer decision making during police stops, how physical appearance impacts use of force. His research has appeared, in the fields leading research journals, including Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Public Management Review, Public Performance Management Review, The American Review of Public Administration, Social Science Quarterly and others.

Dr. Wright received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California, master’s in public policy from Pepperdine University, master’s in theological studies from Liberty University and PhD in public administration and policy from American University.

About the series

TomorrowTalks place thought leaders of today in conversation with the changemakers of tomorrow: our students. Each distinguished speaker explains how they use writing to address our most pressing challenges. TomorrowTalks are a student-engagement initiative led by the Division of Humanities in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at ASU and hosted by ASU's Humanities Institute and the Department of English in partnership with Macmillan Publishers.