Race, Gender, and Voting in the Age of Trump. A Public Zoom Lecture by Traci Parker

The League of Women Voters of Amherst (LWVA) and the Steering Committee of the newly formed Racial Justice Task Force, invites the public to the LWVA Opening Meeting via Zoom on September 17, 7–8:30 p.m The speaker will be Dr. Traci Parker, Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies at UMass. 

Dr. Parker holds a PhD in History from the University of Chicago. She is the author of Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights, and is currently working on her second book, Beyond Loving: Black Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Twentieth Century.   She teaches courses on African American women’s history, 19th and 20th century U.S. history, race and racism, class, labor, capitalism, and consumer culture.

In their announcement, the LWVA said, “In these times of profound racism and renewed efforts towards racial equity, especially in the context of the Corona Pandemic, Professor Parker’s perspective will be welcomed and will hopefully inform our own work moving forward towards racial justice.”

Register and receive the Zoom link at: LWVAmherst.org