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[PAST EVENT] Brown Bag: Jajuan Johnson, "The Journey of Making ALL African American Legacies Matter"

September 23, 2020
12pm - 1pm
Location
Zoom
outdoors, outside, wren, weather vane, weathervane, roof, bird

Jajuan Johnson earned a Ph.D. in Heritage Studies from Arkansas State University. His dissertation, “They Didn’t Burn Down Our Spirit: Heritage Terrorism and the Resurgence of Black Church Burnings in the Age of Obama,” investigates recent Black church arson cases. He explores the impact of burnings on the tangible and intangible heritage of communities. His current research focuses on the terrorization of Black cultural spaces since the 1960s civil rights movement. 


Please email [[jdcarlson]] for the Zoom link for this event.