From educational and health disparities to disproportionate representation in the prison system and police violence, the social and economic reality of many black boys and men in the US is bleak. There is, however, more to black men's and boys' lives than bleakness. This multidisciplinary symposium will bring together scholars from disciplines that often do not dialogue or collaborate with one another in order to think about how notions of crisis and grace might intersect in discourse on black men and boys. Ultimately, the question, to borrow from the Kendrick Lamar refrain that titles the symposium, is: How will black men and boys be alright and what efforts are currently being made by black men and boys to be actively involved in being alright?
Frank Rudy Cooper, Keynote
How Masculinities Exacerbate Racial Profiling: Overcoming the 'Contempt of Cop' Mentality
Speakers Include:
Joshua Bates, OSU Kirwan Institute
Darius Bost, SFSU
La Marr Bruce, UMD
Quinn Capers, OSUMC
Simone Drake, OSU
Waverly Duck, U of Pitt
Darrell Gray, OSUMC
David Ikard, U of Miami
David J. Leonard, Washington State
Jeffrey McCune, Washington U
Linda James Myers, OSU
Wizdom Powell, UNC
Townsand Price-Spratlen, OSU
