Please join WGS for a reception celebrating the appearance of Matthiessen Professor Robert Reid-Pharr’s new book, Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique.

Tuesday, November 15, 5-6 pm
WGS Lounge, Boylston Ground Floor
Refreshments will be served. No RSVP required.
Students (undergrad and grad) can enter a drawing to receive a copy of the book.

In Archives of Flesh, Reid-Pharr reveals the deep history of intellectual engagement between African America and Spain. Opening a fascinating window onto black and anti-Fascist intellectual life from 1898 through the mid-1950s, he argues that key institutions of Western Humanism, including American colleges and universities, developed in intimate relation to slavery, colonization, and white supremacy. This retreat to rigidly established philosophical and critical traditions can never fully address—or even fully recognize—the deep-seated hostility to black subjectivity underlying the humanist ideal of a transcendent Manhood.

Robert Reid-Pharr, Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center, is the F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Professor of Gender and Sexuality at Harvard. During his residence in fall 2016, Reid-Pharr is teaching two courses: Black Masculinities in Literature, Film, and Visual Culture and our theory foundation course, Theories of Race and Sexuality.

Sponsored by Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.