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X-WR-CALDESC:In response to police shootings\, to #BlackLivesMatter\, and t
 o the 2015 murders at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church\, historian Susan St
 rasser seeks to provide historical perspective to people grappling with co
 ntemporary issues of race and racism. This is the second of a series of il
 lustrated talks\, “A White Historian Reads Black History\,” sponsored by B
 ethesda Friends Meeting. The talk will be followed by poet Marcia Cole (ww
 w.historyworthwhile.com) reading her powerful “A Bitter Suite\,” winner of
  the 2010 College Language Association Creative Writing Contest first priz
 e in poetry. Dr. Strasser\, Richards Professor of American History Emerita
  at the University of Delaware\, is a prize-winning historian\, praised by
  the New Yorker for “retrieving what history discards: the taken-for-grant
 ed minutiae of everyday life.” For more about her\, see susanstrasser.net.
  Many scholars and activists remind us that every image of a tormented bla
 ck body has power in our culture. This presentation will include some dist
 urbing images\, offered as stark evidence of our shared history and in mem
 ory of those whose murder and torture they represent.
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DESCRIPTION:In response to police shootings\, to #BlackLivesMatter\, and to
  the 2015 murders at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church\, historian Susan Str
 asser seeks to provide historical perspective to people grappling with con
 temporary issues of race and racism. This is the second of a series of ill
 ustrated talks\, “A White Historian Reads Black History\,” sponsored by Be
 thesda Friends Meeting. The talk will be followed by poet Marcia Cole (www
 .historyworthwhile.com) reading her powerful “A Bitter Suite\,” winner of 
 the 2010 College Language Association Creative Writing Contest first prize
  in poetry. Dr. Strasser\, Richards Professor of American History Emerita 
 at the University of Delaware\, is a prize-winning historian\, praised by 
 the New Yorker for “retrieving what history discards: the taken-for-grante
 d minutiae of everyday life.” For more about her\, see susanstrasser.net. 
 Many scholars and activists remind us that every image of a tormented blac
 k body has power in our culture. This presentation will include some distu
 rbing images\, offered as stark evidence of our shared history and in memo
 ry of those whose murder and torture they represent.
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LOCATION:Bethesda Public Library (Bethesda\, MD)
SUMMARY:A White Historian Confronts Lynching
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