Anti-Black Racism and Language: Vershawn Young - In Conversation with Awad Ibrahim​

Tuesday, January 19, 2021 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

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Anti-Black Racism and Language

Vershawn Young - In Conversation with Awad Ibrahim​

Vershawn Young is a multi-disciplinary artist, scholar, and teacher who is Professor of Communication Arts and English at the University of Waterloo.  He is author, co-author, or editor of nine books, including Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity and the Routledge Reader of African American Rhetoric: The Longue Duree of Black Voices. Join Vershawn in conversation with Awad Ibrahim, Professor Education the University of Ottawa, with special interests in cultural studies, Hip-Hop, youth and Black popular culture, and applied linguistics.

Zoom link to event ryerson.zoom.us/j/91941276567

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