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Tuesday June 13, 2006 7pm
Alliance Française
In English
AFSF & MOAD members $3
Others: $6
RSVP (415)775-7755
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Co-presented with the Museum of the African Diaspora. www.moadsf.com
The idea that African Americans are part of a broader African diaspora has become a key theme in the study of modern
black life. Yet there is also a specifically African American diaspora, in which blacks from the United States have
traveled both throughout the country and throughout the world in search of better opportunities. This talk will address
the ways in which some key themes of diaspora first appeared among the African American expatriate community in
Paris during the twentieth century." |
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| Tyler Stovall, Professor of History at UC Berkeley, is the author of Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light,
(1996) and The Rise of the Paris Red Belt, (1990). He is co-editor, with Sue Peabody, of The Color of Liberty: Histories
of Race in France, (2003). He is the author of numerous articles on French history and has been President of the
Western Society for French History. His work on African Americans in France and on the building of an African American diasporic community
in Paris is of special importance to contemporary understanding of both French and American culture. |
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