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DESCRIPTION:Bettina Aptheker's memoir, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for 
 Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel was published by Seal Press in 
 October. In it she describes growing up as the daughter of Herbert 
 Aptheker, a leading theoretician of the Communist Party USA during the 
 McCarthy era, and her own experiences as a leader of the Berkeley Free 
 Speech Movement and a feminist activist. She also speaks of her memories of 
 childhood sexual abuse. Margot Adler of National Public Radio calls the 
 book "a deeply forgiving work, the portrait of someone who has freed 
 herself to enter a rich and nuanced life," while historian Blanche Wiesen 
 Cook comments, "Vivid and poetic, it is a gift for the future we urgently 
 need now. Everyone interested in the ongoing struggles for peace and 
 justice, civil liberties, and human rights will want to read this lyrical, 
 stirring, profoundly moving work."\n\nThis roundtable brings together a 
 distinguished panel of scholar-activists to reflect on Aptheker's book, the 
 historical moment she recounts, and the broader political issues raised by 
 this intimate history of left activism.\n\nBettina Aptheker is Professor of 
 Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. In addition to Intimate Politics, her 
 books include Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness, and 
 the Meaning of Daily Experience (Massachusetts, 1989) and The Morning 
 Breaks: the Trial of Angela Davis (1976; Cornell, 1999).\n\nJohnnetta B. 
 Cole is President of Bennett College for Women, President Emerita of 
 Spelman College, and was formerly Presidential Distinguished Professor of 
 Anthroplogy, Women's Studies, and African-American Studies at Emory 
 University. Her books include Dream The BoldestDreams: And Other Lessons of 
 Life (Longstreet, 1997) and Conversations: Straight Talk with America's 
 Sister President (Doubleday, 1993).\n\nAngela Davis is Professor of the 
 History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz. In recent years a persistent 
 theme of her work has been the range of social problems associated with 
 incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that 
 are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. Her most recent 
 books are Abolition Democracy (Seven Stories, 2005) and Are Prisons 
 Obsolete? (Seven Stories, 2003). She is completing a book entitled Prisons 
 and History (Columbia, forthcoming).\n\nEricka Huggins is a former member 
 of the Black Panther Party, political prisoner, human rights activist, 
 poet, and teacher. As the longest-standing woman in Black Panther Party 
 leadership, from 1967-1981, she brings a unique perspective to the 
 much-debated challenges and successes of the Party. She teaches Women's 
 Studies at California State University, East Bay, and is a Human Diversity 
 consultant for educational and community-based organizations in the Pacific 
 Northwest.\n\nBlanche Wiesen Cook is Distinguished Professor of History at 
 John Jay College of the City University of New York, renowned for her work 
 in women's history and the history of U.S. international relations. She is 
 the author of the bestselling two-volume work Eleanor Roosevelt: A 
 Biography (Viking, 1992 and 1999).\n\nInvited Audience: Public 
 [everyone]\nAdmission: Free\nSponsored by: Center for Cultural Studies\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/01/21/18349925.php
SUMMARY:INTIMATE POLITICS with Bettina Aptheker
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\nUCSC
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/01/21/18349925.php
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