Date and time
Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 10:40am to 12:00pm
Location
Cal State LA Music Hall
Description
Dr. Johanna Fernández is author of the award-winning book, The Young Lords: A Radical History (UNC Press, 2020) and Associate Professor of History at Baruch College of CUNY.
Dr. Fernández is also the producer of the documentary film, “Justice on Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal,” and editor of Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal (City Lights, 2015). With Mumia Abu-Jamal she co-edited a special issue of the journal Socialism and Democracy, titled The Roots of Mass Incarceration in the US: Locking Up Black Dissidents and Punishing the Poor (Routledge, 2014).
Contact
Co-Sponsored by Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging, Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities, Program in Latin American Studies, Department of History, and WGS Student Club.