St. Clair Drake Memorial Lectures
Overview
The St. Clair Drake Lectures are dedicated to the memory of Professor St.
Clair Drake, renowned professor of sociology and anthropology, an early researcher on black Americans and
the founding Director of the Program in African & African American
Studies at Stanford University. His illustrious scholarly career is framed
by the classic books, Black Metropolis (co-authored
with Horace Cayton, 1945), and Black Folk Here and There (2
vols. 1987-1990). Professor St. Clair Drake died in 1990.
Lectures:
- 2003, Robin D. G. Kelley of Columbia University, "Jazz Folk Here and There: A Trans-Atlantic Conversation."
- 2004, Hortense Spillers of Cornell University, "What is Black Culture?"
- 2006, Manning Marable of Columbia University presented a series of lectures
- 2007, Brent Hayes Edwards, "The Declassification of Theory: CLR James, Translation and Radical Pedagogy"
- 2008, Houston Baker of Vanderbilt University, “Just Enough for the City: Richard Wright and the Black Urban Imaginary”
- 2010, Valerie B. Jarrett ('78), Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement.
