Lessons for Survival: A Reading and Conversation with Emily Raboteau

Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau will read from her latest book, Lessons for Survival. The book is a meditation on race, climate, and environmental justice written from the perspective of a mother struggling to raise her children to thrive without coming undone in an era of turbulent intersecting crises.Emily Raboteau writes at the intersection of social and environmental justice, race, climate change, and parenthood. Her books areLessons for Survival,Searching for Zion, winner of an American Book Award and finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the critically acclaimed novel, The Professor’s Daughter. Since the release of the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, she has focused on writing about the climate crisis. A contributing editor at Orion Magazineand a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, Raboteau’s writing has recently appeared and been anthologized in theNew Yorker, theNew York Times,New York Magazine,The Nation, and elsewhere. She serves as nonfiction faculty at the Bread Loaf Environmental Writing Conference and is Professor of Black Studies and English at the City College of New York.Free and open to the public. A Q&A and book signing will follow the reading and conversation. This is a Pembroke Seminar “Unwriting the Anthropocene” event.Co-sponsored by the Department of Modern Culture and Media.