"Policing the Black Body"

Saturday, April 29, 2006

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Roundtable discsussions with distinguished African American Studies, Anthropology, and Performing Arts faculty from Wesleyan, UC-Irvine, UT-Austin, and Williams. 9:30 am - 2:30 pm. Griffin 3.

Participants Include:

Joy James, Chair, John B. and John T. McCoy Presidential Professor of Africana Studies & College Professor in Political Science, Williams College.

Ted Gordon, Director of the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS), University of Texas at Austin. Publications include Disparate Diasporas: Identity and Politics in an African-Nicaraguan Community (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998).

João Costa Vargas: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas at Austin. His Catching Hell in the City of Angels, about blackness, oppression, and liberation in Los Angeles, will be published in mid-2006 by the University of Minnesota Press.

Jafari Allen , Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies, UT-Austin.. His research centers on Sexuality and Gender in African diaspora; Critical Social Theory; Black Feminisms; Critical Cultural Studies; Cuba and the Caribbean; TBLGQ Culture and Political Organizing.

Kara Lynch: Assistant Professor of Video Production, Hampshire College. Lynch received her B.A. from Williams College and has participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program. She has been active in Media Literacy in the New York City schools and in community-based video education. She is currently at work finishing a feature documentary, BLACK RUSSIANS, which documents the lives of the Black population in the former Soviet Union and takes up questions of race, Cold War politics and capitalism in the "new Russia".

Jared Sexton, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies, University of California, Irvine.


Gina Ulysse, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology, Wesleyan University. Ulysse is a black feminist anthropologist/poet. She has written on race, class and gender, reflexivity and fieldwork conflicts. She recently completed her first manuscript Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, A Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica .  Her poetry has appeared in several anthologies including The Butterfly's Way, Women on the Verge of Home, Resisting Racism and Xenophobia, Resilience and Resistance as well as the journals,  Jouvert: Journal of Postcolonial Studies; Meridians: Feminism, Race and Transnationalism;  Ma Comere, Journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars.

Frank Wilderson, Assistant Professor of Drama, University of California, Irvine. Forthcoming books include: a memoir, Incognegro (Beacon Press); and Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press).