Medgar Evers College
Center for Black Literature
present
7th Annual National Black Writers Conference:
A Tribute to and Symposium on
John Oliver Killens
The Culture and Politics of Black Literature

March 25-27, 2004
Thursday, March 25th: from 6:30-8:30 pm
Conference Opening and Keynote Address by Gil Noble
Langston Hughes Auditorium
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
135th Street & Malcolm X Boulevard, Harlem

Friday, March 26th:
Medgar Evers College Founders Auditorium

PLEASE NOTE:

In addition to the following presentations, writing workshops will run throughout the day. Reserve your space early.

9:30-11:30 am
Tales of African People in Stories, Games and Song with Mary Umolu 

12:30-3:00 pm
Poetry Readings & Dramatic/Spoken Word Performances with Tish Benson, George Edward Tait, Roger Bonair-Agard, DuEwa M. Frazier & Abiodun Oyewole

3:30-5:30 pm
Spoken Word, Hip-Hop & Poetry Slam

4:00-5:30 pm
Storytelling by African American Elders

7:00-9:00 pm
Cultural Program featuring Stacyann Chin, Ruby Dee, Mos Def, Katti Gray, Randy Weston & others


Saturday, March 27th: Medgar Evers College Founders Auditorium

9:30-11:00am
Roundtable: Culture & Politics of Black Literature with Manthia Diawara, Ferai Chideya, Tony Medina, Quincy Troupe, John Williams & Brenda Wilkinson. Moderated by Louis Reyes Rivera

11:00am-12:30pm
Panel: The Literary Works of John Oliver Killens with Fred Hord, Bianca T. Jacob, Steven Nardi & Carlyle V. Thompson

1:00-2:00 pm
Author Readings: Obery Hendricks, Jasper Kenji & Nelly Rosario

2:00-3:45 pm
Panel: John Oliver Killens as Writer and Activist with Ossie Davis, Betty L. Harte, Paul R. Lehman, Richard Wesley & Sarah Wright

4:00-5:15 pm
Roundtable: John Oliver Killens as Friend and Mentor with Malaika Adero, Fred Beauford, Elombe Brath, Jacqueline Johnson, Hazel Reid & Sam Yette

5:30-6:30 pm
Testimonials: B.J. Ashanti, Carol Dixon, Arthur Flowers, Honorable Thomas Russell Jones and Mrs. Bertha Jones, Barbara Killens, Louis Reyes Rivera, Jitu Weusi & others.

for registration information:
http://www.mec.cuny.edu/nbwc

Uri Davis

APARTHEID  ISRAEL: Possibilities for the Struggle Within, Zed Books, London, 2003, Zed Books
Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Preface

Chapter One: Zionism
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust
Transfer and Massacre
World Zionist Organization and its Political Goals
Achieving the Goals of Political Zionism
Regularizing the Irregular: The Regulation of Apartheid in Israel
The Veiling of Israeli Apartheid
The Case of the South African Forest, Golani Junction

Chapter Two: Israel
The Establishment of the State of Israel as a Jewish State
Israel and the UN
Who is a Jew and the Question of Palestinian Return
Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue
The Female Snake and The Taste of Mulberries

Chapter Three: Israeli Apartheid
Israel and South Africa: Two Forms of Apartheid
Jewish Presence, Arab Absence: Registration of Births, Citizenship and Residence
The Histadrut: Continuity and Change
The Case of Sa'ad Murtada, First Egyptian Ambassador to Israel

Chapter Four: Political Repression in Israel
Defence (Emergency) Regulations of 1945
The 1980 Knesset Legislation
The 2002 Knesset Legislation

Chapter Five: Possibilities for the Struggle Within
The Defeat of the PLO in Oslo
Assessing the Danger of Palestinian Defeat at the Peace Negotiations
Israel's Zionist Society
Kibbutz, Moshav and Community Settlement: The Masquerade
The Movement against Israeli Apartheid in Palestine (MAIAP)
Who is a Hebrew
The Story of Qatzir and That's One Small Step for Adil and Iman Qaadan and
One Giant Leap Towards the Democratization of the State of Israel

Appendices

Appendix I: Vladimir Jabotinsky, 'The Iron Wall' (Excerpts); Appendix II:
David Ben-Gurion, 'Statement of Introduction of the Law of Return Before
the Knesset' (Excerp); Appendix III: Naim Khader: 'The Democratic State'
and 'Armed Struggle' (Excerpts); Appendix IV: AL-BEIT: Association for the
Defence of Human Rights in Israel; Appendix V: The Palestinian Declaration
of Independence.

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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