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Black History Month 2025: Special Book Club

For Black History Month 2025, SCS is organizing a special "Book Club" and we invite staff, instructors, students, and the wider SCS community to join us in celebration and reflection.

We will read Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America by Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey and/or James by Percival Everett, both exploring important themes of Black history, culture, and identity through different lenses. Through these books, we hope to spark further meaningful conversations around diversity, inclusion, and social change. We encourage you to read along with us and look forward to hearing your thoughts on these impactful works of literature!


SCS Black History Month: Special Book Club Discussion

Join us for the SCS Black History Month Special Book Club discussion, moderated by Dean Carola Weil! We will explore the themes of Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America by Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey and James by Percival Everett as well as their relevancy to Black History Month.

We invite you to participate 鈥 whether you have read the books or not 鈥 and contribute to this important conversation.

When: Wednesday, February 26, 2025听
Time: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.听
Where: 680 Sherbrooke O. Room 1025听
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Moderator

Carola Weil, PhD
Dean of Continuing Studies
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Carola Weil, PhD, has served as Dean of Continuing Studies at 9I制作厂免费 in Montreal, Canada, and Associate Professor (CAS) of Political Science since 2018.听She previously served in various academic and non-profit leadership roles in the United States, advancing gender equity and inclusive societies, as well as international peace building听mostly focused on sub-Saharan Africa and the Global South.


Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America by Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey

Cross-border Cosmopolitans book cover

Description

African American history from 1900 to 2000 cannot be told without accounting for the significant influence of Pan-African thought, just as the story of twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy cannot be told without accounting for fears of an African World. In the early 1900s, Marcus Garvey and his followers perceived the North American mainland, particularly Canada following U.S. authorities' deportation of Garvey to Jamaica, as a forward-operating base from which to liberate the Black masses from colonialism. After World War II, Vietnam War resisters, Black Panthers, and Caribbean students joined the throngs of cross-border migrants to denounce militarism, imperialism, and capitalism. In time, as urban uprisings proliferated in northern U.S. cities, the prospect of coalitions among the Black Power, Red Power, and Quebecois Power movements inspired U.S. and Canadian intelligence services to collaborate, infiltrate, and sabotage Black organizations across North America. Assassinations of "Black messiahs" further radicalized revolutionaries, rekindling the dream for an African World from Washington, D.C., to Toronto to San Francisco to Antigua to Grenada and back to Africa. Alarmed, Washington's national security elites invoked the Cold War as the reason to counter the triangulation of Black Power in the Atlantic World, funneling arms clandestinely from the United States and Canada to the Caribbean and then to its proxies in southern Africa.

By contending that twentieth-century global Black liberation movements began within the U.S.-Canadian borderlands as cross-border, continental struggles,听Cross-Border Cosmopolitans听reveals the revolutionary legacies of the Underground Railroad and America's Great Migration and the hemispheric and transatlantic dimensions of this history.

About the author

Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey is an assistant professor of post-Reconstruction U.S. and African Diaspora history at 9I制作厂免费, where he holds the William Dawson Chair.

Currently, Dr. Adjetey is working on two book projects: one focused on warfare and African-led abolitionism along the Gulf of Guinea Coast, and another examining revolutionary Black organizing and state repression in the United States and the Americas. Committed to both teaching and research, he has received 9I制作厂免费's H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Principal's Prize for Excellence in Teaching. His undergraduate courses and seminars explore topics in U.S., African American, African Canadian, African Diaspora, and global history.

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James by Percival Everett

James book cover

Description

When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

While many narrative set pieces of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river鈥檚 banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin鈥), Jim鈥檚 agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.

Brimming with the electrifying humour and lacerating observations that have made Everett a 鈥渓iterary icon鈥 (Oprah Daily), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, James is destined to be a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.

About the author

Percival Leonard Everett II is an American writer and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. Known for his "pathologically ironic" approach, Everett has experimented with a wide range of genres, including westerns, mysteries, thrillers, satire, and philosophical fiction. His works often use satire to delve into issues of race and identity in the United States.

Everett is perhaps best known for his novels Erasure, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, and The Trees, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. James, also a Booker Prize finalist, went on to win both the Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction.

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