Amy Ongiri

GRANVILLE, Ohio—Author Amy Abugo Ongiri will present a lecture, “Uncle Jam Wants You!: The Cultural Politics of Black Power,” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 28, in the auditorium of Denison University’s Higley Hall (100 Ridge Road). Ongiri is an assistant professor of English at the University of Florida. Her most recent book, “Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic,” explores the cultural politics of the Black Power movement from the 1960s forward and makes the argument that the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of “authentic blackness” as a cultural identity.  The lecture is sponsored by the departments of dance and history and the Black Studies Program. It is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Gill Wright Miller at 740-587-6766 or visit www.denison.edu.