-Greencroft Lecture   

Christina Proenza-Coles will discuss her book American Founders which reveals men and women of African Descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how Black people developed and defended New World settlements, undermined slavery, and championed freedom throughout the hemisphere from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries. African descended people contributed to every facet of American history as explorers, conquistadores, settlers, soldiers, sailors, servants, slaves, rebels, leaders, lawyers, litigants, laborers, artisans, artists, activists, translators, teachers, doctors, nurses, inventors, investors, merchants, mathematicians, scientists, scholars, engineers, entrepreneurs, generals, cowboys, pirates, professors, politicians, priests, poets, and presidents.

Greencroft members are welcome to enroll through the Club. Fee includes lecture, one drink ticket, and cheese and crackers. The Greencroft Club welcomes OLLI members to make dinner reservations on the evening of the lecture. Please call The Greencroft Club directly to make your dinner reservation. Please note this event is non-refundable. Registration opens January 6.

Christina Proenza-Coles examines questions surrounding race and ethnicity in a transnational and transhistorical framework and specializes in the history of African descended people in the Americas. She holds a dual doctorate in history and sociology, has taught at The Cooper Union, Virginia State University, and the University of Virginia, and is completing her second book, Imagining Communities in Black and White.