{"id":15669,"date":"2012-09-04T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=15669"},"modified":"2015-05-29T12:24:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T16:24:24","slug":"black-feminist-scholar-will-urge-students-to-be-deliberate-and-afraid-of-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/09\/04\/black-feminist-scholar-will-urge-students-to-be-deliberate-and-afraid-of-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Black feminist scholar will urge students to \u201cBe Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Clemons\u2019 background in education, American studies and women\u2019s studies have helped her build a teaching and research agenda that encourages students to create positive change and resistance in their communities.<\/p><\/div>\n

Renowned scholar Kristal Moore Clemons will visit Wright State University to present \u201cBe Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing: Why We Need Black Feminism Now More Than Ever\u201d on Thursday, Sept. 6.<\/p>\n

Clemons\u2019 lecture will take place at 6 p.m. in the auditorium of the Medical Sciences Building. The event is presented by the Bolinga Black Cultural Resource Center with additional support from the Wright State Women\u2019s Center and Women\u2019s Studies Program.<\/p>\n

\u201cBringing Dr. Kristal Moore Clemons is like shedding new light on an ongoing conversation about how Black women live, love and have their being at that intersection of race, class and gender,\u201d said Dana Murray Patterson, Ph.D., director of the Bolinga Center. \u201cI expect her talk to inform and empower those who feel that they have no voice in our society.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clemons\u2019 background in education, American studies and women\u2019s studies have helped her build a teaching and research agenda that encourages students to create positive change and resistance in their communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of the students in women\u2019s studies do not get to hear Black women talking about Black women very often,\u201d said Patterson. \u201cIt\u2019s significant, and bringing Dr. Moore Clemons places this message right at the forefront of the academic and intellectual agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clemons uses the social foundations of education to bring intellectual resources derived from the areas of liberal arts, particularly women\u2019s studies, cultural studies, and history, to bear in developing interpretive, normative and critical perspectives on education and popular culture, both inside of and outside of schools.<\/p>\n

She first became passionate about this work in 2002 during an internship for the Children\u2019s Defense Fund\u2019s Freedom Schools. As an intern, she taught a reading curriculum, developed lesson plans and facilitated social action projects with elementary and high school students. In 2008, she co\u2010founded and served as director of the Durham Freedom School at North Carolina Central University.<\/p>\n

Her experiences with the contemporary Freedom Schools movement was the impetus for her to develop a research agenda and dissertation project dedicated to uncovering African American women\u2019s role in the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer. Her current research focuses on finding new ways to have intergenerational dialogue amongst and between Black women activists from 1964 and those of the present.<\/p>\n

Clemons has presented her work all over the country at a number of conferences. In 2008, she shared a panel with Dr. Mark Anthony Neal and Grammy Award\u00ad\u00ad\u2013winning artist 9th Wonder at the Duke University John Hope Franklin Symposium. Clemons has served as a guest contributor to The Feminist Wire <\/em>and co\u2010authored several works including, What the Music Said: Hip Hop as a Transformative Educational Tool<\/em>, published by Routledge; The Queen of Television: Oprah Winfrey in Relation to Self and as a Cultural Icon<\/em>, published by ABC\u2010CLIO Praeger; and \u201cBein\u2019 Alive & Bein\u2019 a Woman & Bein\u2019 Colored Is a Metaphysical Dilemma\u201d:<\/em> Black Female Social Integration at a Predominantly White Institution,\u201d<\/em> published by Emerald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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