ReVisioning History Author Panel

Authors Catherine Ceniza Choy, Kali Gross, and Kyle Mays from the ReVisioning History series by Boston-based Beacon Press will discuss the importance of highlighting histories from marginalized perspectives. Series Editor and Publisher Gayatri Patnaik will moderate. This online program is presented in partnership by the Boston public Library and the State Library of Massachusetts.

To attend, please register at the following link: https://boston-public-library.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uhNDvJ04TD2tSSUglTkqNA.

Catherine Ceniza Choy is professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Before that, she was an assistant professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is the author of the books Empire of Care and Global Families and the co-editor of the anthology Gendering the Trans-Pacific World. An engaged public scholar, she has been interviewed in many media outlets, including ABC 2020, The Atlantic, CNN, the Los Angeles Times, NBC News, the New York Times, ProPublica, the San Francisco Chronicle, Time, and Vox.

Kali Nicole Gross is the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Her previous books include Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America, winner of the 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in nonfiction.

Kyle T. Mays is an Afro-Indigenous (Saginaw Chippewa) writer and scholar of US history, urban studies, race relations, and contemporary popular culture. He is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America.

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