From the Kislak Stacks
Join us for these monthly lunchtime presentations (noon – 1 pm) by Kislak curators, faculty, and students focusing on specific works or small archives/collections found among the holdings of the Kislak Center.
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Zhangyang (Charlie) Xie (C'24), a Summer Humanities intern in the Kislak Center and University Archives during the summer of 2022, will present his research relating to two new Kislak Center acquisitions: Chinese Communist posters from the 1960s supporting the Civil Rights struggle in the United States. These posters help to reveal a broader story of Afro-Sino and African American-Sino relations in the 1960's and 1970s.
Join us for these monthly lunchtime presentations (noon – 1 pm) by Kislak curators, faculty, and students focusing on specific works or small archives/collections found among the holdings of the Kislak Center.
Charlie is a junior majoring in Africana Studies and Science, Technology, and Society in the College. A resident of Shanghai, China, Charlie spent four years in Cleveland, Ohio prior to attending Penn. A student of diverse academic interests, his past research focused on religion, history of science, and race. His recent research focuses on martial arts and the Black Panther Party, a project based on primary resources available at the Kislak Center.
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