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David Austin draws on the new edition Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal. His talk and readings explore the book's genesis and sixties Black radical politics in relation to contemporary freedom struggles.
Order of Appearance
Welcome: Jacquelyn Sundberg, McGill Library
Introduction: Jennifer Garland, McGill Library
Presentation: David Austin.
David Austin is the author of Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution (2018) and Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal (2013, winner of the 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize). He is editor of Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness (2018) and You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James (2009). He has also produced radio documentaries for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Ideas on C.L.R. James and Frantz Fanon; and recently served as an advisor to CBC televisions Black Life: Untold Stories documentary series. He is currently completing a book entitled C.L.R. James: Philosopher of the Dispossessed. A former youth worker and community organizer, he currently teaches in the Humanities, Philosophy, and Religion Department at John Abbott College and is a Lecturer in the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.
David Austin draws on the new edition Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal. His talk and readings explore the book's genesis and sixties Black radical politics in relation to contemporary freedom struggles.
Order of Appearance
Welcome: Jacquelyn Sundberg, McGill Library
Introduction: Jennifer Garland, McGill Library
Presentation: David Austin.
David Austin is the author of Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution (2018) and Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal (2013, winner of the 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize). He is editor of Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness (2018) and You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James (2009). He has also produced radio documentaries for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Ideas on C.L.R. James and Frantz Fanon; and recently served as an advisor to CBC televisions Black Life: Untold Stories documentary series. He is currently completing a book entitled C.L.R. James: Philosopher of the Dispossessed. A former youth worker and community organizer, he currently teaches in the Humanities, Philosophy, and Religion Department at John Abbott College and is a Lecturer in the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.
