Artist: Social Sciences Forum — Natanya Duncan: Redeemed: Women of the UNIA and Du Bois’ “Damnation of Women”
This talk by Natanya Duncan, director of the Africana Studies Program and associate professor of history at Queens College, will examine how the women of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) set the stage for W.E.B. Du Bois’ expanded ideas on gender and nation building in the 20th Century.