Please join us as we listen to Saidiya Hartman, Professor at Columbia University, discuss her new book "Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments." Wayward Lives recreates the experience of young urban black women who desired an existence qualitatively different than the one that had been scripted for them.
A talk by Dr. Roger Sneed: Afrofuturism as a way of Black people expressing their identity through speculative fictions is fairly new, and yet it is not new. We can trace the Black use of speculative fiction to articulate visions of Blackness and critique white supremacy back to W.E.B. DuBois’s 1920 short story “The Comet.” However, Afrofuturism has made a resurgence, due in part to the phenomenal success of Black Panther, ongoing interest in the work of Octavia Butler, and the rise of the “blerd” (a portmanteau of “black” and “nerd”). Today’s talk uses an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as a focal point for investigating the intersections of Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought.
Thursday, February 28th, 2019 Thomas Bradley International Hall, Room 300 | 12:00pm-3:00pm BLACK EXCELLENCE 2019 Celebrating & Networking with Successful Professionals Join the Career Center for our 2nd annual Black Excellence: […]
