Angela Davis former Black Panther lectures at Pratt TODAY

eberri

How do you get a fugitive from the 1970s, a presidential candidate from the 1980s and a California academic onto one marquee at Pratt?

Book Angela Davis — she’s been all three.

On Thursday, Davis will treat the design school to her lecture, “Identifying racism in the era of Neo-Liberalism,” and it’s sure to make headlines — if her similar address at Brown University in February is any indication.

“Racism is no less overt” now than it was in the 1960s, she said on the Providence, R.I. campus. “Perhaps we do not recognize it as being overt because we have learned how to ignore it.”

That kind of chatter, along with allegations of her involvement in the killing of a judge in the early 1970s, a subsequent manhunt and trial, remain fodder for the city’s tabloids, but Pratt faculty members say that Davis is welcome because she asks tough questions about current affairs.

Angela Davis lecture. Memorial Auditorum (Ryerson Walk between Willoughly and DeKalb avenues in Clinton Hill) at 7 pm, April 22. Free. Call (718) 636-3554 for info.

meredithb

I wonder if Ms. Davis thinks racism is a one way street?

I'd say we are in an era of neo-conservativism, not neo-liberalism.

pitu

Ms. Davis has a profoundly thought-out and nuanced view of the world, unlike anything we're liable to get going on an anonymous message board.
(As much as I love message boards...)

I wonder if anyone (Pratt?) is making a podcast or something of her remarks. I heard about it too late. Pls post or pm me if you see that anywhere.

detrop

i too heard about the occasion too late and would love to hear a recording or see a transcript.