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Cathy Cohen Public Lecture, " Whose Black Lives Matter? The Politics of Black Love and Violence"

Cathy Cohen Public Lecture
March 3, 2015
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Hale Hall Black Cultural Center, MLK Lounge Room 132

Cathy Cohen's general field of specialization is American politics, although her research interests include African-American politics, women and politics, lesbian and gay politics, and social movements.

She is the author of the book The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (University Of Chicago Press, 1999), the co-editor with Kathleen Jones and Joan Tronto of Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader (New York University Press, 1997) and her newest text is Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics (Oxford University Press, 2010). Listen to her discuss Democracy Remixed here!

Cohen also is editor with Frederick Harris of a new book series from Oxford Press entitled Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science, the Department of African American and African Studies, the Multicultural Center, the Department of  English, the Department of Comparative Studies, the College of Education and Human Ecology, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the Sexuality Studies Program and the Diversity and Identity Studies Collective at OSU.