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DESCRIPTION:BOOK TALK: "Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical 
 State \nof Black Citizenship"\n\nJoin City Lights for author and attorney, 
 Hawa Allan, in conversation with poet, educator, and performer, Pamela 
 Sneed as they explore Allan’s new book: "Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil 
 Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship."\n\nTHURSDAY, 
 JANUARY 20, 2022 @ 6:00 PM PST\n\nINFO & RSVP: 
 https://citylights.com/events/hawa-allan/\n\n\n"Insurrection: Rebellion, 
 Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship" is a 
 brilliant book debut by attorney and critic Hawa Allan on the paradoxical 
 state of black citizenship in the United States.\n\nThe little-known and 
 under-studied 1807 Insurrection Act was passed to give the president the 
 ability to deploy federal military forces to fend off lawlessness and 
 rebellion, but it soon became much more than the sum of its parts. Its 
 power is integrally linked to the perceived threat of black American equity 
 in what lawyer and critic Hawa Allan demonstrates is a dangerous paradox. 
 While the Act was initially used to repress rebellion against slavery, 
 during Reconstruction it was invoked by President Grant to quell 
 white-supremacist uprisings in the South. \n\nDuring the civil rights 
 movement, it enabled the protection of black students who attended 
 previously segregated educational institutions. Most recently, the 
 Insurrection Act has been the vehicle for presidents to call upon federal 
 troops to suppress so-called “race riots” like those in Los Angeles in 
 1992, and for them to threaten to do so in other cases of racial justice 
 activism. Yet when the US Capitol was stormed in January 2021, the impulse 
 to restore law and order and counter insurrectionary threats to the 
 republic lay dormant.\n\nAllan’s distinctly literary voice underscores 
 her paradigm-shifting reflections on the presence of fear and silence in 
 history and their shadowy impact on the law. Throughout, she draws 
 revealing insight from her own experiences as one of the only black girls 
 in her leafy Long Island suburb, as a black lawyer at a predominantly white 
 firm during a visit from presidential candidate Barack Obama, and as a 
 thinker about the use and misuse of appeals to law and order.\n\nElegant 
 and profound, deeply researched and intensely felt, Insurrection is 
 necessary reading in our reckoning with structural racism, government 
 power, and protest in the United States.\n\n\nPraise for 
 "Insurrection"\n\n“Hawa Allan speaks with the cool, clear, analytical 
 rigor of the highly trained legal scholar, the detached bemusement of the 
 social anthropologist who declines to go native, the eloquence of the poet, 
 and the sublimated autobiographical anger of the unwilling recipient of 
 this country’s doggedly persistent attempts to deny the rights of full 
 and equal citizenship to Americans of acknowledged African descent. Her 
 prose is mesmerizing; her voice is fresh, original, and completely unique. 
 ?Insurrection ?is a profound historical meditation on the American 
 pathology, the brilliant debut of a major thinker on the American 
 intellectual scene.”\n-Adrian Piper, author of Escape to 
 Berlin\n\n“‘All of history is happening right now,’ observes Hawa 
 Allan in this beautifully written history of the complex, paradoxical role 
 of the Insurrection Act in American life. ?Allan’s profoundly moving book 
 exposes the emotional underbelly of slavery’s traumatic legacy on both 
 enslavers and enslaved, and on all the generations since. The affective 
 echo of that moral crisis remains entangled in today’s most urgent 
 conflagrations. In a moment as deeply divided as ours, Allan’s book 
 offers principled and reflective pause.”\n-Patricia J. Williams author of 
 Giving a Damn\n\n\nSPEAKER: Hawa Allan, author & attonery\n\nHawa Allan is 
 an attorney and an author who writes cultural criticism, fiction and 
 poetry. She is a lecturer at The New School and an essay editor at The 
 Offing. Her work has appeared, among other places, in The Baffler, the 
 Chicago Tribune, LA Review of Books, Lapham’s Quarterly and Tricycle 
 magazine, where she is a contributing editor.\n\nINTERVIEWER: Pamela Sneed, 
 poet, educator, and performer\n\nPamela Sneed is a poet, educator, and 
 performer. She is the author of the books Funeral Diva, Sweet Dreams, Kong, 
 and Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery. She was a Visiting 
 Critic at Yale, and at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, and is 
 online faculty at Chicago’s School of the Art Institute teaching Human 
 Rights and Writing Art. She also teaches new genres at Columbia’s School 
 of the Arts in the Visual Dept. Her work is widely anthologized and appears 
 in Nikki Giovanni’s, The 100 Best African American Poems. She makes her 
 home in Brooklyn, New York.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/01/07/18847137.php
SUMMARY:Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship
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URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/01/07/18847137.php
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