Panel Discussion: Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later

Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
Panel Discussion

Thursday, October 15, 2009
7:30 PM

The Mary Lou Williams Center
Duke University

Join Dr. Maurice Wallace and Dr. Mark Anthony Neal for a panel discussion on Spike Lee's film, Do The Right Thing on the 20th Anniversary of the film's release.

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A 1995 Duke PhD, Maurice Wallace has also taught at in the departments of English and African and Afro-American Studies at Yale University. Author of Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men's Literature and Culture, 1775-1995, his recent teachings and writings have turned to literature and visual culture, with particular emphases on autobiography, realism, and the visual technologies of race and gender.

Mark Anthony Neal is Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University. He holds a Doctorate in American Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Neal has appeared in several documentaries including Byron Hurt’s acclaimed Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes (2006), John Akomfrah’s Urban Soul (2004) and the BBC’s Soul Deep: the Story of Black Popular Music (2005). A frequent commentator for National Public Radio Neal also contributes to several on-line media outlets, including The Root.com (Washington Post Interactive)