Jessica Krug: Fugitive Modernities: Black Political Imagination and Radical Silence

Jessica A. Krug delivers a free, public lecture as part of the Fall 2019 Intra-Disciplinary Seminar series. Krug is an associate professor of history and Africana Studies at George Washington University and the author of Fugitive Modernities: Kisama and the Politics of Freedom (Duke University Press, 2018), currently a finalist for both the Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass book prizes.  She is a decolonial historian of Black political thought and action in West Central Africa and throughout the Americas, with a particular interest in non-state and fugitive societies, as well as hip hop cultures.  She is a dancer with the KR3TS Dance Company, a copwatcher, and has written for Essence and Racebaitr.