Event Title
Luncheon Address:Toward the Goal of Human Wholeness - Pauli Murray's Journey
Location
Krongard Room
Start Date
29-3-2013 12:30 PM
End Date
29-3-2013 1:30 PM
Description
Serena Mayeri, author of REASONING FROM RACE: FEMINISM, LAW, AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS REVOLUTION (2011), will describe highlights of Pauli Murray’s life and career as a case study in the power and price of living at the switch point among race, sex, and sexuality. Murray (1910-1985), an African American feminist, poet, lawyer, activist, and Episcopal priest, was so far ahead of her time that her astonishing accomplishments often were lost or overlooked. Murray’s contributions to civil rights, feminism, and theology are only now being recovered by historians, who are beginning to examine how and why Murray saw things that others didn’t. Murray’s life epitomizes the productive anguish of being, and feeling oneself to be, an outsider, and her many and varied forms of storytelling allowed her to navigate the relationships between individual experience and collective identity, a painful past and a promising future.
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Luncheon Address:Toward the Goal of Human Wholeness - Pauli Murray's Journey
Krongard Room
Serena Mayeri, author of REASONING FROM RACE: FEMINISM, LAW, AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS REVOLUTION (2011), will describe highlights of Pauli Murray’s life and career as a case study in the power and price of living at the switch point among race, sex, and sexuality. Murray (1910-1985), an African American feminist, poet, lawyer, activist, and Episcopal priest, was so far ahead of her time that her astonishing accomplishments often were lost or overlooked. Murray’s contributions to civil rights, feminism, and theology are only now being recovered by historians, who are beginning to examine how and why Murray saw things that others didn’t. Murray’s life epitomizes the productive anguish of being, and feeling oneself to be, an outsider, and her many and varied forms of storytelling allowed her to navigate the relationships between individual experience and collective identity, a painful past and a promising future.
Comments
Comments by Jennifer Levi and Kimberly Washington follow the presentation.