G+JI Annual Report 2020-2021

Chatelain, winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History, Franchise: The
Marcia
Arches in Black America (WW Norton, 2020).
Golden
Franchise, Chatelain reveals the complicated role the fast-food industry plays in
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communities, a portrait of race and capitalism that masterfully
African-American
how the fight for civil rights has been intertwined with the fate of Black
illustrates
businesses.
Windham was in conversation with Ina Padua and Eliana Rondon, two organizers
Dr.
DC Jobs with Justice. Drawing from Windham’s book, the discussion explored past
from
present workers’ organizing and their work supporting workers’ rights and
and
intersectional labor justice amid a global health and economic crisis.
advancing
Forché: on Resistance and Memory in conversation with
Carolyn
Corrigan
Maureen
discussion focused the writing process as well as the stories told by Forché. They
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episodes of Forché’s life and particularly her time in El Salvador between 1977
evoked
Patterson shined light on R&B music and culture and particularly the influential
Dr.
Whitney Houston. He offered a brilliant analysis of Houston’s work and life in
artist
to examine broader issues connected to gender, sexuality, Black culture and
order
politics.
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G JI and the DC Public Library
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Book Hill Talks - Gender Justice Series
2020, we started a partnership with the DC Public Library that consists of hosting Georgetown
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faculty and scholars for book talks at the neighborhood public library.
University
October 6, 2021
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
March 23, 2021
Windham, Knocking on Labor’s Doors, Union Organizing in the 1970s and
Lane
the Roots of a New Economic (UNC Press, 2017)
Divide
The Power of Unions Past and Present
February 26, 2020
Forché, What You Have Heard Is True A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
Carolyn
Press, 2019)
(Penguin
and 1980, as the Central American country tipped into civil war.
February 13, 2020
Patterson, Destructive Desires, Rhythm and Blues Culture and the Politics
Robert
of Racial (Rutgers University Press, 2019)
Equality
Reading Whitney Houston: on R&B and Black Culture
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