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SUMMARY:From Mississippi to Cambridge: Marie Battle Singer\,  Britain's f
 irst Black psychoanalyst - Professor Jane Rhodes (Department of Black Stud
 ies\, University of Illinois-Chicago)\; Professor Lynn Hudson (Department 
 of History\, University of Illinois-Chicago)
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CONTACT:Julian Siebert
DESCRIPTION:Marie Battle Singer was a Black American born during the Jim C
 row era in the Deep South who fled the U.S. to build a life in England. Sh
 e trained as a psychoanalyst with Anna Freud and had a thriving psychother
 apy practice in London and Cambridge\, where she also became a fellow at C
 lare Hall and taught in the Psychology department. Despite her significant
  achievements\, the lingering trauma of racial hatred and discrimination s
 haped every aspect of her personal and professional life. Rhodes and Hudso
 n\, authors of a biography-in-progress of Singer\, will offer highlights o
 f this remarkable Black expatriate and how she navigated race\, gender\, a
 nd national identity on both sides of the Atlantic.\n\n*About the Speakers
 *:\nJane Rhodes is Professor and Head of the Department of Black Studies a
 t the University of Illinois\, Chicago. She is the author of Mary Ann Shad
 d Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the NIneteenth Century and Framing 
 the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon\, now in it
 s second edition. In 2013 Rhodes was a fellow at Cambridge's C.R.A.S.S.H. 
 where she conducted research for this project.\n \nLynn Hudson is an Assoc
 iate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Illinois\
 , Chicago. She is the author of The Making of Mammy Pleasant: A Black Entr
 epreneur in Nineteenth Century San Francisco\, and the recently published 
 West of Jim Crow: The Fight Against California's Color Line. In 2019 Hudso
 n was the Meeker Distinguished fellow at the University of Bristol where s
 he continued research on Singer's history.\n\nRegister "here":https://wolf
 son-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/9816140802796/WN_YxMqL_6RSISo70pY55
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LOCATION:Wolfson College Zoom webinar
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