Lecture:  The Second Battle for Africa: Louise Little, Midwestern Garveyism, and the Politics of Possibility

Erik McDuffie, UIUC African American Studies/History

Tuesday, December 10, 2024. 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Location: Osher Classroom and Zoom

Drawn from his forthcoming book, The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom, Professor McDuffie will discuss the diasporic journeys and the grassroots, pan-African activism of Louise Little, the Grenada-born community activist best known as the mother of Malcolm X. 

Lecturer:  Erik S. McDuffie is an Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His research and teaching interests include the African diaspora, the Midwest, black feminism, black queer theory, black radicalism, urban history, and black masculinity.  He is the author of Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011). The book won the 2012 Wesley-Logan Prize from the American Historical Association and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, as well as the 2011 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians. He is also the author of scholarly articles and essays.