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Superpanel on Art, Protest and Racial Justice | Bay Area Society for Art & Activism 5/5/2016 Who We Be: Superpanel on Art, Protest and Racial Justice | Bay Area Society for Art & Activism Home Contact Subscribe Become a Member! About Us Programs Art & Activism Quarterly Join Us! Our Blog Community Calendar Collective Memory→ Think Tank→ Home › Programs › Art & Activism Book Club › Who We Be: Superpanel Become a on Art, Protest and Racial Justice Member! Who We Be: We invite you to Superpanel on Art, become a member of our community at a Protest and Racial level that feels meaningful and Justice affordable. One time and monthly contributions can be made via the PayPal button above. Suggested annual memberships are sliding scale $24 – $360 per year. Learn more → Inspired by Jeff Chang’s recently published Who We Be: The Colorization of America, the “Who We Be: Superpanel on Art, Protest and Racial Justice” brings together five phenomenal panelists to discuss the visual culture of protest and current http://artandactivism.org/programs/book­club/superpanel/ 1/7 5/5/2016 Who We Be: Superpanel on Art, Protest and Racial Justice | Bay Area Society for Art & Activism national movements for racial justice. Featuring: Jeff Chang, Alicia Garza, Ben Davis, Steven W. Thrasher, and Christian L. Frock Moderated by Elizabeth Travelslight This event took place on Saturday, April 4, 2015 at the Koret Auditorium – San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, in San Francisco, California. This event was free and open to the public. Podcast below and more documentation here → By Jeff Chang, published by St. Martin's Press, 2014. artanda… Buy it now → Who … Share 187 Cookie policy In Who We Be, Jeff Chang draws upon decades of politics, popular culture, and visual art to describe the recent history of race in America. Chang calls readers’ attention to the post­ Civil Rights emergence of “multiculturalism” and its subsequent successes and failures, such as the unprecedented election of the United States’ first black president with Barack Obama in 2008 and the persistent racial divides that lead to the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012. The book, released last fall in the midst of uprising over the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, re­opens urgent By Ben Davis, conversations about race in America at a particularly poignant published by time. Chang looks to visual artists in particular for new visions Haymarket Books, of America’s future as the United States approaches a racial 2013. Buy it now → tipping point in 2043 when the country becomes “majority­ minority” and whites make up less than half of the national population. In response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s killer, longtime Bay Area activist Alicia Garza, together with co­organizers Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi, coined the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. Their strategic national organizing around the hashtag embraced and affirmed Black life while raising awareness about the police brutality and systematic racism http://artandactivism.org/programs/book­club/superpanel/ 2/7 5/5/2016 Who We Be: Superpanel on Art, Protest and Racial Justice | Bay Area Society for Art & Activism that discounted black lives every day. A year later, by the time of the non­indictment verdicts for the police officers who killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner, #BlackLivesMatter had captured the world’s attention and helped to mobilize the largest national civil rights movement in recent memory. Ben Davis and Christian L. Frock frequently write about the intersections of art, politics, race and social justice on the East and West Coasts respectively. By the end of 2014, they both readily tackled A. O. Scott’s question, “Is our art equal to the Published by Chronicle challenge of our times?” and identified generative new terms Books with an of engagement for the visual culture of protest and radical art introduction by brought forth by the current social justice movements. Davis Christian L. Frock, offered “After Ferguson, A New Protest Culture’s Challenge to 2015. Buy it now → Art” in the online website artnet News and Frock summed up the year in KQED Arts with “Hell No, We Won’t Go: Outstanding Radical Art And Global Movements in 2014″. Meanwhile, fellow writer Steven W. Thrasher had spent last fall jump starting his newly appointed column with The Guardian covering Ferguson and went on to become a leading critical voice in the media during the subsequent protest movements that galvanized cities across the country. His writing consistently forefronts the personal stories of black people and regularly calls out the incompetence of political leaders who fail to address the root causes of racism and white supremacy. Together, our five panelists have dedicated a tremendous amount of time considering the multitude ways in which race, visual culture, art, protest and the media come together to obstruct or advance the cause of racial justice. Their conversation will be an extraordinary opportunity for artists and activists to assess recent political movements and discuss strategies for creating art that not only equals “the challenges of our times” but provides catalytic visions for a radical new consensus on racial justice. Panelist Biographies Jeff Chang has written extensively on culture, politics, the arts, and music. His first book, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip­Hop Generation, garnered many honors, including the American Book Award and the Asian American http://artandactivism.org/programs/book­club/superpanel/ 3/7 5/5/2016 Who We Be: Superpanel on Art, Protest and Racial Justice | Bay Area Society for Art & Activism Literary Award. He edited the book, Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip­Hop. His new book, Who We Be: The Colorization of America, was released on St. Martin’s Press in October 2014. He is currently at work on two other book projects: Youth (Picador Big Ideas/Small Books series), and a biography of Bruce Lee (Little, Brown). Jeff has been a USA Ford Fellow in Literature and a winner of the North Star News Prize. He was named by The Utne Reader as one of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World”. With H. Samy Alim, he was the 2014 winner of the St. Clair Drake Teaching Award at Stanford University. Jeff co­founded CultureStr/ke and ColorLines. He has written for The Nation, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Believer, Foreign Policy, N+1, Mother Jones, Salon, Slate, Buzzfeed, and Medium, among many others. Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai’i, he is a graduate of ‘Iolani School, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of California at Los Angeles. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University. Alicia Garza is the co­founder of Black Lives Matter. The movement began with the online hashtag, #BlackLivesMatter, and grew into a national organizing project that is an affirmation and embrace of the resistance and resilience of Black people. She is currently the Special Projects Director at the National Domestic Workers Alliance and previously served as Executive Director of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER) in San Francisco, CA. She has been the recipient of multiple awards for her organizing work in Black and Latino communities including the Local Hero award from the San Francisco Bay Guardian and the Jeanne Gauna Communicate Justice award from the Center for Media Justice in 2008. She has twice been honored by the Harvey Milk Democratic Club with the Bayard Rustin Community Activist award for her work fighting gentrification and environmental racism in San http://artandactivism.org/programs/book­club/superpanel/ 4/7 5/5/2016 Who We Be: Superpanel on Art, Protest and Racial Justice | Bay Area Society for Art & Activism Francisco’s largest remaining Black community. Alicia currently serves on the Board of Directors for the School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL) in Oakland, California, and is a contributing writer for WarTimes magazine. She serves as trusted counsel for organizations across the country looking to build their capacity to lead and win organizing campaigns. When she’s not scheming on freedom, Alicia enjoys dancing, reading and writing—and scheming some more. Ben Davis is the author of 9.5 Theses on Art & Class (Haymarket, 2013) which received wide critical acclaim, including a nomination for Best Work of Criticism from the International Association of Art Critics. He was previously executive editor of Blouin Artinfo and is currently National Art Critic for artnet News and critic in residence at Montclair State University. His writings have appeared in Adbusters, Artinfo.com, Art Papers, C Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, Slate.com, The Village Voice, and many others. He lives in New York City. Twitter: @benadavis Steven Thrasher is a Writer­At­ Large for the Guardian, where he writes features, arts essays and a weekly column on politics. He is also a Henry M. MacCracken doctoral fellow in American Studies at New York University and a board member of the American Sociological Association’s journal Contexts. Steven was named a 2014 “Game Changer” by Mused Magazine for his BuzzFeed coverage of HIV criminalization and his Guardian coverage of Black Lives Matter, and he was named Journalist of the Year 2012 by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his writing in Out, the Village Voice and the New York Times. His work was included in Gawker’s “Best Posts of 2013” and in the bestselling book Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps. The recipient of a 2010 Courage Award from the Anti­Violence Project, a 2011 James Aronson Award for Social http://artandactivism.org/programs/book­club/superpanel/ 5/7 5/5/2016 Who We Be: Superpanel on Art, Protest and Racial Justice | Bay Area Society for Art & Activism Justice Journalism from Hunter College, and a 2011 Feature Writing Award from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, Steven is a frequent commentator on race and sexuality for NPR, the BBC, Al Jazeera America and Democracy Now! In 2015, Steven wrote the liner notes for the forthcoming Decca Records album Valentina Lisitsa Plays Philip Glass.
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