The Oscar-nominated documentary I AM NOT Y OUR NEGRO is a thought-provoking\, prescient film that explores James Bald win's return to America during the civil rights movement of the 1960s and examines his relationships with three leading civil rights activists: Medg ar Evers\, Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, and Malcolm X.
\nJoin us for a screening of I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO followed by a conversation facilitated b y Dr. Cynthia Young\, Chair of the Department of African American and Afri can Studies at OSU\, as we celebrate the life\, writing\, and legacy of Ja mes Baldwin at 100. \;
\nLearn more about the film here.
\nAbout th e Facilitator:
\nCynthia A. Young is Associate Prof essor and Chair of the Department of African American and African Studies at The Ohio State University. Previously\, she has taught and led Black St udies departments at Boston College and The Pennsylvania State University. At Penn State\, she co-led a cluster hire that recruited 11 Africana scho lars to the university. Her first book\, \;Soul Power \;( Duke UP) considers a group of white\, Black\, and Latinx writers\, filmmak ers\, and unionists whose art and activism were inspired by US civil right s and anticolonial movements in Cuba\, China\, and Ghana. Her second book\ , \;Culture Wars\, Terror Wars\, \;considers how US racia lization\, state surveillance and immigration transformed and intensified during the so-called war on terror. She is particularly interested in how civil rights rhetoric has been appropriated by right-wing terror groups to promote white supremacy to a mainstream\, white audience. During her grad uate school years\, she was a grad student union organizer at Yale Univers ity\, which was finally recognized in 2022 after a 30+ year battle for uni on representation. She has been recognized for her efforts to support and sustain underrepresented scholars and their work with two Mellon grants to taling over $1 million dollars.
\nTrained as a literary critic and a n interdisciplinary cultural historian\, she specializes in 20th \;cen tury radical social movements\, US civil rights history\, 21st \;centu ry forms of antiblackness\, and African diasporic cultural production refl ecting the precarity of Black life facing economic exploitation\, xenophob ia\, and various forms of state and imperial terror.
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