Manufacturing Powerlessness in the Black Diaspora: The Crisis of Leadership
[BLACK HISTORY MONTH] CONVERSATION: “Manufacturing Powerlessness in the Black Diaspora: The Crisis of Leadership”
with Dr Charles Green
Presented by Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC)
Wednesday, February 22 | 4-6pm
The Graduate Center, Room 9206, located at 365 5th Avenue New York, NY 10016
Website: http://bit.ly/xMIQdG
This talk is on powerlessness and its reproduction wherever black and brown people, in particular, are located. Several factors are discussed as being associated with the persistence of powerlessness, however, findings reported in my work, Manufacturing Powerlessness in the Black Diaspora point to leadership as the core problem. At this critical juncture in the 21st century this finding could not be clearer as we travel throughout enriched Mother Africa, across to the Caribbean and Latin America, right up to the United States and Canada. Sharing our thoughts on how to bring about real change and advocate the manufacture of empowerment, would be an excellent contribution to Black History Month.
Charles Green received his BA in Sociology from Hunter College, MSW from Howard University, and the Ph.D. from Rutgers University. He occasionally teaches in the Ph.D. program in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate School and University Center. He is currently serving as Department Head and served in that capacity from 1998 -2003. He is the co-author of The Struggle for Black Empowerment in New York City: Beyond the Politics of Pigmentation (Praeger/McGraw-Hill paperback, 1989), and editor of Globalization and Survival in the Black Diaspora: The New Urban Challenge (SUNY Press, 1997). In 2001 he authored Manufacturing Powerlessness in the Black Diaspora (Altamira Press a division of Rowman & Littlefield). His recent work (co-editor Roberta Coles) is “The Myth of The Missing Black Father” (Columbia University Press, 2009).
