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                          Is Hip-Hop Stuck on the “N” Word?

(Worcester, MA – February 22, 2007) Author and scholar, Imani Perry, associate professor at Rutgers Law School, will speak on “Stuck on the ‘N’ Word: Race Drama in the Age of Hip Hop,” at 1 p.m., Thursday, March 1, 2007, in the Multimedia Auditorium, Ghosh Center for Science and Technology, at Worcester State College.

Perry currently teaches advanced constitutional law, law and literature, and critical race theory at Rutgers University. Her scholarly work is in the areas of race, legal history and culture. Perry has written Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop and Narrative of Sojourner Truth.

She has also taught at Harvard College and Suffolk University in the History and African American Studies departments. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty, she was a fellow and adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center. She received her bachelor’s degree from Yale College and her Ph.D. from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in American Civilization and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

This event is sponsored by the Worcester State College Diversity Office, Philosophy Department, Center for the Study of Human Rights and Third World Alliance.

Free and open to the public, the event will include a reception following the lecture.

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