UNM's History Department Colloquium
History Colloquium Spring Series :
Title:“Build Your Base: James ‘Jimmy’ Garrett and the Methodology of the Black Student Union”
Marc Robinson is an Associate Professor of History at California State University, San Bernadino. In 2022, he received the Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award. Robinson’s monograph, Washington State Rising: Black Power on Campus in the Pacific Northwest (2023), was published as part of the Black Power Series of New York University Press. The text re-positions debates about the Civil Rights Movement, placing the Pacific Northwest within that framework. It is the first monograph to uncover the inspiring activism and outstanding contributions of the Black Student Union in the state of Washington. This organization of intrepid college students spearheaded a number of racial injustice campaigns, including a Seattle-wide youth outreach program, a sit-in and occupation of the University of Washington president’s office, confrontations with law enforcement in rural Washington, and successful initiatives for Black Studies and other reforms in higher education. Moreover, the monograph expands knowledge of the black freedom struggle: complicating conventional narratives, chronologies, and geographies of 1960s black activism. Locating the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements in the Pacific Northwest adds new dimensions to existing scholarship and broadens our understanding of the period.
As per our works-in-progress convention at the Colloquium Series, the paper will be pre-circulated before the event to allow for a more sustained conversation. You can access it by visiting the Colloquium Page on the History Department's website, here.
Please call the History Department if you need the password or would like a copy emailed to you.
We look forward to seeing you there.
History Common Room - Mesa Vista Hall 1104
Friday, February 21st
For more information on Colloquium events, please contact:
The University of New Mexico
Department of History
MSC06 3760
1104 Mesa Vista Hall
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
505-277-2451
