Thursday, September 17, 2020 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Please join us as we begin a new year that will include elections and much more. Our speaker will be Traci Parker, Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies @University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Professor Parker holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago. She is the author of "Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights" (University of North Carolina Press, 2019). She is currently working on her second book, "Beyond Loving: Black Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Twentieth Century". Parker’s research has received support from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, among others. She teaches courses on African American women’s history, nineteenth and twentieth century U.S. history, race and racism, class, labor, capitalism, and consumer culture.
