Pitzer Podcasts

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The Claremont Colleges Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies Annual Conference, April 4, 2007
	Welcome and Opening Remarks Susan Anderson, Visiting Professor and Conference Organizer, and Halford Fairchild, Chair, Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies (IDBS)
Length: 8:34	Listen online	mp3 file
	Keynote Speaker Inside and Outside: Self-Trained Historians, Black Intellectuals and the Rescue of African American History Ralph L. Crowder, Associate Professor, UC Riverside On the pioneering Black history advocacy and collecting activities of John Edward Bruce (1856-1924) and Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874-1938), and why they are relevant for the Los Angeles region today.
Length: 47:21	Listen online	mp3 file
	Morning Panel More Than Fleeting Impressions: Preserving Physical Monuments to the Black Experience Alison Rose Jefferson, Associate Historian, Historic Resources Group, Alma Carlisle, Cultural Heritage Commissioner, City of Los Angeles; Moderator, Rita Roberts, Associate Professor of History, Scripps College. Issues in historic preservation of buildings central to the African American presence, including 100-year-old Phillips Chapel, CME, African American Firefighters Museum and Lady Effie’s Tea House.
Length: 1:15:08	Listen online	mp3 file
	Afternoon Speaker Don’t You Want To Be Free? African American Classical Arts In a Divided Society Sue Hodson, Curator, Literary Manuscripts, The Huntington Library Exploring unique collections comprising the papers of poet Langston Hughes, donated by the Miller family; composer and author Harold Bruce Forsythe; and the First Negro Classic Ballet, founded by Joseph Rickard.
Length: 48:45	Listen online	mp3 file
	Afternoon Speaker The Afro-Asian City Daniel Widener, Assistant Professor, UC San Diego Examining the interconnected history of Japanese, Japanese American, and African American communities in Southern California.
Length: 52:34	Listen online	mp3 file
	Afternoon Panel Archives and Collections - Reclaiming and Reframing the Los Angeles Story Judge William C. Beverly, Jr. (Ret.), Director and Founder, Eighth and Wall; Christopher Jimenez y West, Program Manager, History, California African American Museum; Lorn Foster, Professor, Pomona College; Moderator, Susan Anderson, Visiting Professor, Pitzer College, Managing Director, L.A. As Subject, USC.
Part A - Length: 1:10:04	Listen online	mp3 file
Part B - Length: 1:03:37	Listen online	mp3 file
	Closing Remarks The Past Isn’t Past: Contemporary Meaning and Urgency in the Black Historical Project Susan Anderson, Visiting Professor, Pitzer College
Length: 5:53	Listen online	mp3 file

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