Location: Tan Oak Room in the Martin Luther King Building, University of California-Berkeley campus. Please enter through the second floor of the MLK building.
UC Berkeley residents who live on-campus will receive a free copy of Dr. Lewis' book if they RSVP by April 10th and can pick up their copy at the event.
Join Dr. Jovan Scott Lewis in conversation with Dr. Brandi Summers about Lewis' recently published book Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa. The book retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, from the post-Reconstruction migration of Black people to Oklahoma Indian Territory to contemporary efforts to rebuild Black prosperity. Light refreshments will be provided at the event.
Light refreshments provided. This event is sponsored by UC Berkeley's Resident Faculty Program and Othering and Belonging Institute and is part of Lewis' larger series on Reparations.
