by Sarah Onyango
On February 2, 2016, at Carleton University, the Institute of African Studies and History Watch Project presented a Black History Month event entitled: Research, Repression, and Freedom: A conversation with David Austin. As a point of departure, this wide-ranging conversation touched on a number of subjects related to politics, race, security, prisons, incarceration and human freedom. The conversation was moderated by CBC News Ottawa anchor, Adrian Harewood.
David Austin is the author Fear of: “Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal”, winner of the 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize for literature in English or Creole. He is also the editor of : “You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James”, and has produced radio documentaries on the life and work of Frantz Fanon and C.L.R. James for CBC’s flagship program, Ideas. He currently teaches in the Humanities, Philosophy and Religion Department at John Abbott College.
