Join us for the opening event in our new Black Salon Series as we welcome Professor David Stovall to BCA for a special UK appearance. He’ll be in conversation about his groundbreaking book, Engineered Conflict: Structural Violence and the Future of Black Life in Chicago, exploring how state power shapes Black communities, and how those communities continue to resist.
Engineered Conflict is a hard-hitting examination of how state policies in Chicago, through housing instability, school closures, and criminalisation, displace and isolate Black working-class communities, manufacturing conflict between neighbours while obscuring the real forces of capitalism and white supremacy.
Doors open at 6:00 PM. Please note, this event will also be available via livestream
Free entry for BCA Black Card members
£15 for a ticket only for non-members
£30 for a ticket and a copy of Engineered Conflict
Tickets include a complimentary beverage
Black Card members- If you are interested in attending the event at BCA, please email marketing@bcaheritage.org.uk with “Black Salon Series” in the subject line. You can also watch the livestream from the Video section of your account page.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Stovall, Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Black Studies and the Department of Criminology, Law & Justice at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). His scholarship focuses on three core areas: Critical Race Theory, the relationship between housing and education, and the intersection of race, place and schooling.
Committed to bringing theory into practice, he works alongside community organisations and schools to advance equity, justice and the abolition of the school–prison nexus. This commitment led him to serve on the design team for the Greater Lawndale/Little Village School for Social Justice (SOJO), which opened in 2005.
Building on this work, he is also active in the People’s Education Movement, a collective of classroom teachers, community members, students and university faculty in Chicago, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, developing community-rooted, relevant curriculum. In addition to his role at UIC, he volunteered as a social studies teacher at Greater Lawndale/Little Village School for Social Justice from 2005 to 2018.