Hobart and William Smith Colleges

26 September 2016 Fisher Center: You Cant Fix a Broken Foundation

Examining the theme No Place Like Home, the 2016-17 Fisher Center lecture series continues onWednesday, Sept. 28, with You Cant Fix a Broken Foundation: Black Womens Housing in the 1970s, a talk by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.

An assistant professor of African American studies at Princeton University, Taylor is the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. In the words ofCornel West, This brilliant book is the best analysis we have of the #BlackLivesMatter moment of the long struggle for freedom in America. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor has emerged as the most sophisticated and courageous radical intellectual of her generation.

Taylors talk will draw from her work in progress, Race for Profit: Black Housing and the Urban Crisis of the 1970s, which looks at the federal governments promotion of single-family homeownership in Black communities after the urban rebellions of the 1960s. She considers the impact of the turn to market-based solutions on Black neighborhoods, Black women on welfare, and emergent discourses on the urban underclass. Taylors talk will be held at 7 p.m. in the Geneva Room of the Warren Hunting Smith Library.

Through No Place Like Home, this years lecture series explores the diverse productions of and investments in the concept of home in the context of capitalism and technology, refugee crises and ecological catastrophe, and policing and colonialism.

Founded in 1998, the Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Menbrings together faculty, students and experts in gender-related fields in the arts, humanities, and social and natural sciences to foster mutual understanding and social justice in contemporary society.