Gangster Epistemology: Urban Crime and the American Dream

A Veterans of Intercommunal Violence Lecture with Max Hunter

Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 6:00pm
University of Washington's Kane Hall 120

As a lecturer in the Veterans of Intercommunal Violence series, Max Hunter, a former drug dealer, will explain how he came to accept violence as a legitimate tactic for achieving his ends, and how he has made a transition to nonviolent action. Hunter’s talk explores concepts of African American masculinity, violence, neo-liberalism, and the lure of the streets as a venue for social mobility. Hunter’s personal narrative, interwoven with Black Nationalism, Rastafarianism, Christian theology and standpoint theory, will challenge contemporary stereotypes of the urban drug dealer.

Hunter has taught in Boston public schools and Concord Academy, and was appointed to a pioneering committee of community bioethicists at Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is currently a teaching fellow and editor Perkins Perspective at Seattle Pacific University’s John Perkins Center for Reconciliation, Leadership Training, and Community Development.

Reception to follow in the Walker Ames room.

For more information contact Theron Stevenson.

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The Clowes Center was formed in 2004 in order to provide a forum within which students, faculty and members of our communities (both local and international) can develop projects, programs, events and research that explore specific efforts to create and sustain dialogue across social and political, and national boundaries.

Past events have included the Veterans of Inter-communal Violence Speaker Series and the international conference States of Violence: Representations of Conflict in Film, Fiction, and Media of South Asia.

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Veterans of Inter-communal Violence Speaker Series

Click on the links below for more information on each speaker and to link to video of their lectures.

2009: Gendering Conflict — Disarming Nationalisms
Nirmala Rajasingam

2007: The Dream of Peace in Guatemala
Marco (aka Maco) Antonio Garavito

2006: Guerilla Peacemakers
Yazir Henri

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Conference

States of Violence:
Representations of Conflict in Film, Fiction, and Media of South Asia

A Conference hosted by:
The Clowes Centre for Conflict and Dialogue
Comparative History of Ideas Program (CHID)
University of Washington, Seattle
February 20 – 21, 2009