Democracy Project Event, Melissa Harris-Perry (Wake Forest) “Flags, Stairs, and Folding Chairs: Marginalization and Strategies of Resistance in Higher Education”

Democracy Project
Salomon Center for Teaching
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“Flags, Stairs, and Folding Chairs: Marginalization and Strategies of Resistance in Higher Education”
Addressing the symbolic and material position of higher education institutions in American politics, Professor Harris-Perry will discuss how marginalized individuals and communities deploy multiple strategies of survival and resistance on and off campus.

 

Professor Melissa Harris-Perry is the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University. She is author of the award-winning Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought, and Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America. Professor Harris-Perry is founder and president of the Anna Julia Cooper Center whose mission is to advance justice through intersectional scholarship and action.


She served as the final host and managing editor of The Takeaway, a daily, national public radio program and podcast which aired on over 300 public radio stations across the country. From 2012-2016, she hosted the groundbreaking television show “Melissa Harris-Perry” on weekend mornings on MSNBC and was awarded the Hillman Prize for broadcast journalism. She served as editor-at-large for Elle.com and continues to serve as contributing editor for The Nation.