The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) held a lecture entitled: "Imperial Remains: Langston Hughes and the Spanish Trace in the Black American Imaginary" by Robert Reid-Pharr.
Dr. Robert F. Reid-Pharr is Professor of English and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The author of many works on race, gender, and sexuality in American culture, Reid-Pharr's latest book is Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual (New York University Press, 2007). He lives in Brooklyn.