Guest lecturer addresses race in war movies
A lecture entitled “The Image of Blacks in World War I and World War II Films” will be presented by Nina Mjagkij, Professor of History at Ball State University, Muncie, Ind., Thursday, Oct. 27, at 4:30 p.m. in Science Lab 118 on the MSUM campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Mjagkij is author of the award-winning Light in the Darkness: African Americans and the YMCA, 1852-1946 as well as numerous articles on race, gender, and film. She is co-editor of Men and Women Adrift: The YMCA and YWCA in the City and editor of Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations as well as Portraits in African American Life since 1865. Mjagkij was appointed to serve a four-year term on the editorial board of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. She continues to serves as co-editor of Rowman & Littlefield’s African American History Series, as well as Director of Ball State’s African-American Studies Program. Mjagkij won the 1994 Hurley Goodall Distinguished Faculty Award and Ball State’s 1995 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.
For more information about the lecture, contact Paul Harris at 218.477.4045 or harrispa@mnstate.edu.