{"id":32980,"date":"2004-01-28T08:43:55","date_gmt":"2004-01-28T12:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=32980"},"modified":"2024-07-01T16:43:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T20:43:45","slug":"princeton-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2004\/01\/28\/princeton-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Princeton scholar to discuss memory and civil rights in Bates lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/01\/smith.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"190\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/01\/smith.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"smith\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Valerie Smith, director of Princeton University&#8217;s program in African American studies and a member of the Bates College Class of 1975, gives a lecture titled <em>Memory and the United States Civil Rights Movement<\/em> at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 9, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Avenue. The public is invited to attend the talk, sponsored by the Multicultural Center, free of charge.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Smith, the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature and professor of English at Princeton, is a specialist in African American literature and culture, with particular interests in black feminist theory and film studies. She is the author of <em>Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings<\/em> (Routledge, 1998) and <em>Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative<\/em> (Harvard University Press, 1987). She also edited <em>African-American Writers<\/em> (Scribners, 1991), <em>New Essays on Song of Solomon<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 1994) and <em>Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video<\/em> (Rutgers University Press, 1997).<\/p>\n<p>Smith taught at Princeton from 1980 to 1989, then joined the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she chaired UCLA&#8217;s interdepartmental program in African American studies from 1997 to 2001 and co-directed cultural studies in the African Diaspora Project from 1996 to 1999. She returned to Princeton in 2001 and became director of the African American Studies program in 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valerie Smith, director of Princeton University&#8217;s program in African American studies and a member of the Bates College Class of 1975, gives a lecture titled &#8220;Memory and the United States Civil Rights Movement&#8221; at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 9, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Avenue. The public is invited to attend the talk, sponsored by the Multicultural Center, free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[39,166],"tags":[12105,2289,9006],"class_list":["post-32980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-highlights","category-humanities-history","tag-africana","tag-civil-rights-movement","tag-valerie-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90787,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32980\/revisions\/90787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}