2020 is the year that many Americans woke to the enormous disparities still faced by people of color in the United States. One question facing white Americans is how can they responsibly bridge some of these differences in their minds and everyday lives. Dr. Lopez Bunyasi, Professor at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University will discuss her co-authored book Stay Woke: A People's Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter, and expound upon how to continue the commitment to antiracism in a Biden-Harris administration. Bunyasi’s work is broadly concerned with matters of race, racism, and antiracism, especially with racial attitudes, ideologies, marginalization, and the politics of whiteness.
She illuminates lessons from the current Movement for Black Lives to equip people to become effective racial justice advocates and antiracists. Blending together a wealth of scholarly work with critical reflections from popular culture, Stay Woke sheds light on the precarious nature of Black lives in the United States by unmasking structural racism and explaining how even well-meaning people can reproduce racial inequality. Created as a toolkit and written in accessible language, Stay Woke empowers its readers to become more knowledgeable participants in public dialogue, activism, and American politics.
The program will be presented live on Zoom by the Scoville Memorial Library
on Thursday, January 6 at 2:00 pm. Registration for the talk is posted on the library’s event pages https://www.scovillelibrary.org/events/.
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