St. Clair Drake Memorial Lectures
Overview
The St. Clair Drake Lectures are dedicated to the memory of Professor St.
Clair Drake, renowned African American anthropologist and educator, and
the founding Director of the Program in African & African American
Studies at Stanford University. His illustrious scholarly career is framed
by the classic books, Black Metropolis (co-authored
with Horace Cayton, 1945), and Black Folk Here and There (2
vols. 1987-1990). Professor St. Clair Drake died in 1990.
Lectures:
- 2003, Robin D. G. Kelley of Columbia University, "Jazz Folk Here and There: A Trans-Atlantic Conversation."
- 2004, Hortense Spillers of Cornell University, "What is Black Culture?"
- 2006, Manning Marable of Columbia University presented a series of lectures
- 2007, Brent Hayes Edwards, "The Declassification of Theory: CLR James, Translation and Radical Pedagogy"
- 2008, Houston Baker of Vanderbilt University, “Just Enough for the City: Richard Wright and the Black Urban Imaginary”
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2009, Charles Ogletree of Harvard School of Law, "Dr. St. Clair Drake's Narrative Dialogue with Barack Hussein Obama: Traveling the Road from Cambridge to Kenya and Back!"
Also see:
Drake as Scholar
Remarks Delivered by Professor Lawrence D. Bobo at the "St. Clair
Drake: Scholar, Mentor, Friend" Panel
October 21, 2005
