The New Black Reality: Interrogating Love and Tradition

Contact info: Black Students' Alliance

Smith College

February 24th-26th, 2006

The purpose of the BSA New England Regional conference is to bring together scholars, community activists and students from across our community to contemplate issues of critical importance to the black community. This year, we have chosen to center our work as an organization on addressing the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, not only through direct material contributions but also through thinking through our communal responses to various situations of crisis, physical, social and political. Our conference entitled The New Black Reality:Interrogating Love and Tradition will be a moment to scrutinize our language of community as it relates to thinking about crisis.