Chicago Humanities Festival | Forrest Stuart and Cathy Cohen: Black Youth and Political Agency in the 21st Century @ChicagoHumanitiesFestival | Uploaded November 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Media representations of Black urban youth often paint a simplistic and negative picture of their realities and aspirations. Join sociologist and recent MacArthur Fellow Forrest Stuart and political scientist Cathy Cohen for a conversation that provides a more nuanced portrait of the lives of Black youth. Stuart’s Ballad of the Bullet explores the creative and economic strategies young musicians on Chicago’s South Side employ to lift themselves out of poverty, often at their own peril. Cohen’s Democracy Remixed, based on the findings of The Black Youth Project, examines the lived experience of navigating opportunity and discrimination.
This program is presented in partnership with the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago.
This week’s programs presented with the support of Bank of America.
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Media representations of Black urban youth often paint a simplistic and negative picture of their realities and aspirations. Join sociologist and recent MacArthur Fellow Forrest Stuart and political scientist Cathy Cohen for a conversation that provides a more nuanced portrait of the lives of Black youth. Stuart’s Ballad of the Bullet explores the creative and economic strategies young musicians on Chicago’s South Side employ to lift themselves out of poverty, often at their own peril. Cohen’s Democracy Remixed, based on the findings of The Black Youth Project, examines the lived experience of navigating opportunity and discrimination.
This program is presented in partnership with the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago.
This week’s programs presented with the support of Bank of America.
Donate now to support programs like this: chicagohumanities.org/donate
Order the book Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy online at Seminary Co-op: semcoop.com/ballad-bullet
Explore upcoming events: chicagohumanities.org
Connect on Twitter: twitter.com/ChiHumanities
Connect on Facebook: facebook.com/chicagohumanities
Connect on Instagram: instagram.com/chihumanities
![Kim Gordon, Sinéad Gleeson & Laurie Anderson on Women in Music [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sqPT8UZ_gWY/hqdefault.jpg "Kim Gordon, Sinéad Gleeson & Laurie Anderson on Women in Music [CC]
Here’s to the women in music who kick in doors, who break genres, who are repeatedly asked: “What’s it like to be a girl in a band?” Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon doesn’t like the question, but her new anthology This Woman’s Work, edited with former music journalist Sinéad Gleeson, gives us multitudes of answers on their own terms. Youre invited to join Gordon, Gleeson, and the subject of the anthologys lead essay, Laurie Anderson, for a riotous time spotlighting womens work in the music industry, which includes claiming their stories (and songs), while simultaneously smashing the patriarchy. This conversation is moderated by Pitchforks Editor in Chief, Puja Patel.
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