Unfinished Business: Legacy of Second Wave Feminism

Feminist, revolutionary, and acclaimed historian, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, will discuss the relationship between activism and academia, women in academia, and her experiences in various liberation movements. Dunbar-Ortiz is a long-time activist, engaged in various social justice movements including the women’s movement and indigenous peoples’ rights movement.

She received a PhD in history from UCLA and in 1974 she began teaching at California State University at Hayward, near San Francisco, where she helped develop the Departments of Ethnic Studies, and Women’s Studies.

Her most recent book, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.

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