Transition Magazine: Nelson Mandela
featuring
WARREN BINFORD
XOLELA MANGCU
STEVEN NELSON
DateDec
2
Tuesday
December 2, 2014 8:00 PM ET |
LocationHarvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Tickets
This event is free; no tickets are required.
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Harvard Book Store is pleased to once again host an evening with Transition Magazine for the launch of Issue #116, a tribute to Nelson Mandela.
In December, we mark a year since the passing of Nelson Mandela—a man who was as much myth as flesh and blood. With issue 116, we pay tribute to Mandela’s worldly attainments and to his otherworldly sainthood. Our event will feature readings from three of the issue’s contributors. XOLELA MANGCU, one of Mandela’s most vocal South African critics, asks what it would look like to infuse Mandela’s anti-racial politics with a politics of racial justice and black power. Art historian STEVEN NELSON addresses the ubiquity of images of Nelson Mandela, suggesting that these pictures allow the viewer to share in the hope and reconciliation for which Mandela has come to stand, even as they risk obscuring our view of the real Mandela. Law professor WARREN BINFORD examines post-colonial Africa’s pursuit of stringent laws protecting the rights of children, while reflecting upon the ideal of unity amidst enduring post-apartheid inequality.
Copies of this collectible issue of Transition will be on hand to purchase at a special one-night-only promotional price, with contributions from Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, Pierre de Vos, and many more.
Walking from the Harvard Square T station: 2 minutes
As you exit the station, reverse your direction and walk east along Mass. Ave. in front of the Cambridge Savings Bank. Cross Dunster St. and proceed along Mass. Ave for three more blocks. You will pass Au Bon Pain, JP Licks, and TD Bank. Harvard Book Store is located at the corner of Mass. Ave. and Plympton St.
Born in Africa and bred in the diaspora, Transition is a unique forum for the freshest, most compelling, most curious ideas about race. Since its founding in Uganda in 1961, the magazine has kept apace of the rapid transformation of the black world and has remained a leading forum of intellectual debate. Now, in an age that demands ceaseless improvisation, they aim to be both an anchor of deep reflection on black life and a map charting new routes through the globalized world.
Transition is a publication of the Hutchins Center at Harvard University, published three times annually by Indiana University Press. Find Transition on Twitter at @Transition_Mag and on the web at http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/transition. Transition partners with Harvard Book Store several times a year for a discussion based on their latest issue.
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