Jamie Ford: “Racebending: Adventures in a Bi-cultural World”

Oct 23

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The public is invited to the annual Stephen Ambrose Memorial Lecture featuring acclaimed novelist Jamie Ford, who will discuss an early example of cultural appropriation and assimilation when his great-grandfather changed his name from Min Chung to William Ford and the generational ripple effect that had on his family.
Ford will also talk about what the future might hold as we approach 2045, the year the Brookings Institute predicts people of color will become the ethnic majority in the U.S. He’ll discuss why finding the truth in historical fiction is so important and how he came to write about subjects so close to his personal past and future.
This year, the lecture is part of the Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate series, held in tandem with an exhibit at the Holter Museum.

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