Race & American Politics: Darryl Pinckney

Following this year’s election, writer Darryl Pinckney will discuss the role of race and voting rights in American politics for the 2012 Robert B. Silvers Lecture. He is the author of the novel High Cotton, and, in the Alain Locke Lecture Series, Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature. He is also a former fellow of The Dorothy & Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers at the New York Public Library.