Specialist in Performance studies, performer, Humanities postdoctoral fellow from Stanford, and Associate Professor in Africana Studies in Williams College, Dr. Rashida K. Braggs will discuss her most recent book, Jazz Diasporas: Race, Music and Migration in Post-World War II Paris, with members of the Starkville and University community at Mississippi State University. Her book considers negotiations of power and culture as African American jazz musicians sought new opportunities when they migrated to Paris in the 1940s.
