ANTI-RACIST ORGANIZING:

David Roediger

on
Frank Sinatra's The House I Live In


Tuesday 9 November 2004
7:00 p.m.
Crown Center Auditorium
(Loyola Avenue at the lake, near the Loyola stop on the Red Line El)
Loyola University Chicago

African-American Studies scholar and historian David R. Roediger will give a multimedia presentation on antiracist organizing and the left, using the 1945 Frank Sinatra film short, The House I Live In, as a starting point to explore the limits and possibilities of white antiracism. A question and answer session will follow.

Dr. Roediger is Professor of History and Director for the Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of several books on race and class, including Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past (2003), Towards the Abolition of Whiteness: Essays on Race, Politics, & Working Class History (1994), The Wages of Whiteness: Race & the Making of the American Working Class (1991). Dr. Roediger is also editor of Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White (1998).

This event is sponsored by the Loyola Campus Greens, Black World Studies, Hillel, Minority Women United, Sociology Department, History
Department, and Political Science Department, and generously underwritten by the Arrupe-King Fund.

For more information, contact Loyola Campus Greens at campus-greens (at) luc.edu.