BookPeople and Torch Literary Arts Present: Ashley D. Farmer - Queen Mother

Please welcome Ashley D. Farmer and Dr. Ashanté Reese to celebrate Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore, presented by !

This event is free and open to the public.

• Start time: 6:30 P.M.
• Run time: 45-60 minutes, followed by a signing line.
• Location: The second floor of BookPeople.

The author will be signing and personalizing copies of the book after the speaking portion of the event.

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About the book:

Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore by award-winning historian Dr. Ashley D. Farmer delivers the definitive biography of this freedom fighter and trailblazer in the struggle for reparations.

About the author:

Dr. Ashley D. Farmer is an award-winning writer, researcher, and cultural analyst who explores Black history and its implications today. Her first book, Remaking Black Power, was shortlisted for numerous awards, Farmer’s ideas and insights have appeared in numerous venues including Harper's Bazaar, NPR, The Washington Post, and Teen Vogue. Farmer is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

About the moderator:

Dr. Ashanté Reese is associate professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. She earned a PhD in Anthropology from American University and a bachelors of arts in History with a minor in African American studies from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Broadly speaking, Dr. Reese works at the intersection of critical food studies and Black geographies, examining the ways Black people produce and navigate food-related spaces despite anti-Blackness. Animated by the question, who and what survives?, much of Dr. Reese’s work has focused on the everyday strategies Black people employ while navigating inequity. Her first book, Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C., takes up these themes through an ethnographic exploration of anti-Blackness and food access. Black Food Geographies won the 2020 Best Monograph Award from the Association for the Study of Food and Society and the 2020 Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association. Her second book, Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice, is a collection co-edited with Hanna Garth that explores the geographic, social, and cultural dimensions of food in Black life across the U.S. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Mellon foundation and has been published in a variety of academic and public venues: Antipode, Human Geography, the Oxford American, and Gravy Magazine among others.

Currently, Dr. Reese is working on two books. The first, Gather, explores the ways Black people gather in the midst of anti-Black violence to nourish ourselves and each other. Central to this exploration are the spaces that Black people imagine, create, and inhabit to mark their resilience and love for each other—often with food in tow. The second, The Carceral Life of Sugar, explores the spatial, economic, and metaphorical resonance of the plantation in the early 20th century convict lease system in Texas and the ongoing significance of sugar in everyday (Black) life.

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