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Bunk and the History of Hoaxes with KEVIN YOUNG

April 26, 2018 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Free
Before fake news dominated headlines, KEVIN YOUNG was tracking down its roots. His latest book, Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News, chronicles the racially prejudiced path that brought fake news to where it is to today. Longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award, Bunk dives into hoaxes big and small that permeate American history and the cultural attitudes that drive them. Young joins CAROLE BELL, an assistant professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University whose research explores the connections between media and politics, for a broad-ranging discussion on the current state and political consequences of fake news. A book signing will follow.
 
Speakers
 
Kevin Young is poetry editor for The New Yorker, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library, and the author of 11 books and poetry collections including The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness, which was a New York Times Notable Book, and Jelly Roll: A Blues, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. 
 
Carole Bell is an assistant professor of Communication Studies and affiliated faculty in Political Science at Northeastern University. Bell’s teaching and research focuses on the intersections of media, politics, public opinion and public policy, with a particular focus on issues of social identity. Her first book, The Politics of Interracial Romance in American Film, is forthcoming from Routledge.
 
This event is sponsored by Radius at MIT. All Communications Forum events are free and open to the general public.

Details

Date:
April 26, 2018
Time:
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Website:
https://commforum.mit.edu/fake-news-and-the-history-of-hoaxes-with-kevin-young-a5299913dbcb

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MIT Communications Forum
Email:
couch@mit.edu
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https://commforum.mit.edu/@MITCommForum

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MIT Comm Forum
33 Mass Avenue, Building 3, Floor 2
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Did You Know?

Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.