Please join us Friday, Oct. 13, 6:30 pm (reception) 7 pm (talk) in Butler Building 4 for the first event of our Aesthetics and Politics Lecture Series. Dr. J.T. Roane will give a talk entitled The Grounded Prophet: On June Jordan's Thought, Process, and Radical Writing Aesthetic.
J.T. Roane is assistant professor of Africana Studies and Geography and Andrew W. Mellon chair in Global Racial Justice in the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University. For 2023-2024 he is Visiting Scholar in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard. He received his PhD in history from Columbia University and he is a 2008 graduate of the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia. His bookDark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place was published in 2023 with New York University Press. Roane's short experimental film Plot received support from Princeton's Crossroads Fellowship. He also currently serves as a member of Just Harvest—Tidewater, an Indigenous and Black led organization building toward food sovereignty and justice in Virginia’s historical plantation region through political and practical education.