BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:A Biography of James Baldwin -- talk by Robert Reid-Pharr PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_1459983_0 SUMMARY:A Biography of James Baldwin -- talk by Robert Reid-Pharr DESCRIPTION:

This talk is a part of the Mahindra Humanities Center 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.

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.

LOCATION:Mandela Room, The Democracy Center, 45 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20191113T200000Z DTEND:20191113T220000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR