WWU alumnus Michael Dumas to present 'Running Out of Damns to Give' on Oct. 26

The first event in the Justice Speaks Series this academic year is Michael J. Dumas' 'Running out of Damns to Give:' Refusing Antiblackness and Settler Colonialism in the Next 25 years.

This presentation is at 6 p.m. on Thursday Oct. 26, in Miller Hall 138, and is free and open to the public.

Dumas is a 1992 WWU graduate (Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies) and currently an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education and Department of African American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. His work centers on the cultural politics of Black education, the cultural political economy of urban education, and fugitive possibilities in and against education research. His work has appeared in such journals as Harvard Educational Review, Teachers College Record, Race, Ethnicity, and Education, and Educational Policy.