Events
The Lady with the Whip": Gendered Violence and Social Death in Manderlay and Django Unchained (A Talk on Gender, Violence & Black Experience with Frank Wilderson)
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Columbia University
Barnard College
Diana Center Oval, Lower Level 2
How do we complicate our notions of gender, violence and
political organizing in Black life? What does it mean to conceptualize slavery
as an ongoing relationship? Join us for a talk by Frank Wilderson, Professor of
African American Studies and Drama (UC-Irvine) and award-winning author of
Incognegro and Red White and Black.
Also featuring Esther Armah (political commentator, playwright and WBAI radio
host) as discussant.
Sponsored by Sexual Violence Response, Institute for Research in
African-American Studies, Institute for Research on Women & Gender, Barnard
Center for Research on Women, Women's Heritage Month, Radical C.U.N.T.S. and
the Black Students Organization.