His books include the prizewinning Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (2009) Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression (1990) Race Rebels: Culture Politics and the Black Working Class (1994) Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (1997), which was selected one of the top ten books of the year by the Village Voice and Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002). Nash Professor of American History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His essays have appeared in several anthologies and publications, including The Nation, Monthly Review, the New York Times, and Boston Review, for which he also serves as contributing editor.Robin D. Grace Halsell: An Intimate History of the American Century (both forthcoming from Metropolitan Books).

He is currently completing two books, Black Bodies Swinging: An American Postmortem, and The Education of Ms. His books include Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination Yo’ Mama’s Disfunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America and Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression. Nash Endowed Chair in US History at UCLA. His work has been published in The Guardian, The Nation, Bookforum, n+1 and other venues. He is an assistant professor of African American Literature at Sarah Lawrence College. Norton), is a story of homecoming, friendship, tragedy, and nature set in a history-haunted American South. The evening is introduced by Bookforum editor Michael Miller, who will also field audience questions.Įlias Rodriques’s highly acclaimed debut novel, All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running (W.

Just the opportunity to watch what happens when two great minds come together. As with every 'No Wrong Answers' event, there is no moderator, no agenda, and no preconceived notions. Kelleyīookforum is pleased to present the second event in its series 'No Wrong Answers' with a conversation between novelist Elias Rodriques and scholar-author Robin D. No Wrong Answers: Elias Rodriques and Robin D.

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