J'aime Quick & ABDO Publishers Present Award Winning Author Duchess Harris

FREE EVENT!

J'aime (Quick) Garcia and ABDO Publishers in conjunction with the Houston Public Library will be hosting award winning author Duchess Harris on Wednesday, August 16th, 2017 at the Houston Public Library Central Branch at 500 McKinny St Houston, TX 77002 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm. Join Houston area librarians for an evening filled with memorable anecdotes from Duchess as she takes you on a journey exploring various topics related to her life as an award winning author.

Duchess Harris' newest book, 'Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of NASA" is about the Black women who did mathematical calculations for John Glen to go to the moon. Harris was motivated to write this book with Sue Bradford Edwards because her grandmother was in the group of the first 11 recruited to work at NASA.

Duchess Harris, is a professor and chair of the American Studies Department at Macalester College. Her other publications are the co-authored book Black Lives Matter (Essential Library) with Sue Bradford Edwards, Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton/Obama (Palgrave Macmillan), and an edited volume with Bruce Baum, Racially Writing the Republic: Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity (Duke University Press).