African Studies Center

Claudia Jones, A Life of Struggle and Exile

Lecture by Marika Sherwood, Honorary Research Fellow from University of London on the life of U.S. McCarthy era exile Claudia Jones

Claudia Jones, A Life of Struggle and Exile

Claudia Jones, a native of Trinidad, was a radical black feminist and communist. She was deported from the United States during the McCarthy-era witch hunts in the 1950s. In England she became a leading journalist and activist voice of the Black British community

 

Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011

Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Bunche Center Library & Media Center
135 Haines Hall
UCLA

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsor(s): African Studies Center, Latin American Institute, Gender Studies, UCLA “Cultures in Transnational Perspective”, Mellon Postdoctoral Program in the Humanities, UCLA Cuba and Caribbean Interdisciplinary Working Group

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