News Release

UDM presents a talk with Dr. Danielle McGuire

The Women's and Gender Studies and African American Studies Programs at University of Detroit Mercy are hosting speaker Dr. Danielle McGuire on Thursday, Nov. 10 at 6 p.m. The talk will take place in the School of Architecture building on the McNichols campus.

McGuire will be discuss her book, "At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance,” inspired by Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement.  The book begins by describing events and people from our past, and challenges in the Detroit leader’s life that led to such a spectacular movement for the world. McGuire will also talk about how social class and sexual violence affected the lives of so many people in such difficult times.  “At the Dark End of the Street “ acknowledges that women were treated differently at that time and how they endured through the stress and violence of the day.

This is a free event and is open to the public. For more information, please contact WGS Director Rosemary Weatherston at 313-993-1083 or at weatherr@udmercy.edu.

Release date: November 09, 2011

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