{"id":29698,"date":"2019-01-01T11:07:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T19:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=29698"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:38:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:38:36","slug":"walidah-imarisha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/walidah-imarisha\/","title":{"rendered":"CANCELLED due to weather: Walidah Imarisha returns to campus to talk about black history in Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER<\/span><\/h1>\n<h5 class=\"entry-title taggedlink\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cWhy Aren\u2019t There More Black People in Oregon?: A Hidden History\u201d<\/span><\/h5>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">an interactive lecture with Walidah Imarisha<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><del>Wednesday, February 27th<\/del><br \/>\n<del>4:30 &#8211; 6:00 PM<\/del><br \/>\n<del>Straub Hall, Room 156<\/del><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #c40606;\">Free &amp; open to the public<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walidah.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Walidah Imarisha<\/a> describes herself as an historian at heart, reporter by (w)right, and rebel by reason. Winner of a 2017 Oregon Book Award for creative nonfiction for <em>Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption<\/em>, she also has edited two anthologies, authored a poetry collection, and is currently working on an Oregon Black history book.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29708\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29708\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29708\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Walidah-Imarisha_100_10_12_17-copy-copy-170x300.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Walidah-Imarisha_100_10_12_17-copy-copy-170x300.jpg 170w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Walidah-Imarisha_100_10_12_17-copy-copy-85x150.jpg 85w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Walidah-Imarisha_100_10_12_17-copy-copy-160x282.jpg 160w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Walidah-Imarisha_100_10_12_17-copy-copy.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walidah Imarisha \/ photo by Jack Liu, 2017<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Imarisha has taught in Stanford University\u2019s Program of Writing and Rhetoric, Portland State University\u2019s Black Studies Department, Oregon State University\u2019s Women Gender Sexuality Studies Department, and Southern New Hampshire University\u2019s English Department. She spent six years with Oregon Humanities\u2019 Conversation Project as a public scholar facilitating programs across Oregon about Oregon Black history, alternatives to incarceration, and the history of hip hop.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society and cosponsored by the Division of Equity &amp; Inclusion; Division of&nbsp; Undergraduate Studies; UO Libraries; and the Departments of English, Ethnic Studies, History, and Philosophy.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER \u201cWhy Aren\u2019t There More Black People in Oregon?: A Hidden History\u201d an interactive lecture with Walidah Imarisha Wednesday, February 27th 4:30 &#8211; 6:00 PM Straub Hall, Room 156 Free &amp; open to the public Walidah&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/walidah-imarisha\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":30204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,697,326],"tags":[688,56,843,158,687],"class_list":["post-29698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-human-rights","category-race-issues","tag-black-history","tag-csws","tag-oregon","tag-uo","tag-walidah-imarisha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29698"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32787,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29698\/revisions\/32787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}