#  A Biography of James Baldwin -- talk by Robert Reid-Pharr 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 13, 2019** 

 03:00PM - 05:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Mandela Room, The Democracy Center, 45 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

 This talk is a part of the Mahindra Humanities Center [BBQ+: Studying Black, Brown, and Queer](http:/mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/bbq-studying-black-brown-and-queer) seminar, which discusses key debates and new approaches at the intersection of critical race theory, postcolonial/decolonial and indigenous theory, and queer theory. BBQ+ interests are rooted in the mixed and hybrid identities of those living in late capitalism and in this age of post/colonialism. The seminar is focused on decentering the monolithic US-European experience, as well as in understanding how this experience influences dynamics around the world. Premised on the interconnectedness of minoritarian identities and experiences of subversion and resistance, the seminar will investigate how an integrated critical approach will allow for a deeper and more concrete investigation of contemporary and historical social and political realities.

 ![Photo of Robert Reid-Pharr](/sites/g/files/omnuum8271/files/wgs/files/robert-reid-pharr2_0.jpg)

 

[Robert Reid-Pharr](/people/robert-reid-pharr) is Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. A specialist in African American culture and a prominent scholar in the field of race and sexuality studies, Reid-Pharr has published four books: *Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique* (NYU Press, 2016), *Conjugal Union: The Body, the House, and the Black American* (Oxford University Press, 1999); *Black, Gay, Man: Essays* (NYU Press, 2001); and *Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual* (NYU Press, 2007). *This seminar series is sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, the Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies, and the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.*



 

 



 

 

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