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Scholar/writer Tillet to discuss her book 'Sites of Slavery'
Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, 4:30 p.m.
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Lewis Library, Room 138
Posted October 9, 2012; 12:04 p.m.
Salamishah Tillet, a visiting fellow at Princeton during the 2010-11 academic year, will discuss her new book "Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination" — which examines how contemporary African American artists and writers reconstruct "sites of slavery" to challenge the national amnesia about slavery and model a racially democratic future — at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16, in the Lewis Library, Room 138.