Author: Ruha Benjamin with Lorgia García Peña

The award-winning author is joined in conversation with Lorgia García Peña to discuss Benjamin's new book, "Imagination: A Manifesto," and its connection to her previous book, "Viral Justice."

This program will be held in person at the library and will also be available to view as livestream on the library's YouTube channel.

Ruha Benjamin is an internationally recognized writer, speaker, and professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where she is the founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab. She is the award-winning author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (Polity), Viral Justice (Princeton), Imagination (Norton), and editor of Captivating Technology, among many other publications. Her work has been featured widely in the media, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, The Root, and The Guardian.

Lorgia García Peña is a writer, activist and scholar who specializes in Latinx Studies with a focus on Black Latinidades. Her work is concerned with the ways in which antiblackness and xenophobia intersect the Global North producing categories of exclusion that lead to violence and erasure. Through her writing and teaching, Dr. García Peña insists on highlighting the knowledge, cultural, social and political contributions of people who have been silenced from traditional archives. 

Presented in partnership with Not In Our Town Princeton.

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