Black Study Off the Shores of “The Black Body” with Tiffany King (Women, Gender, and Sexuality, FAS)

Date: 

Wednesday, March 4, 2020, 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

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

In The Black Shoals, King uses the shoal—an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea—as metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize the encounter between Black studies and Native studies. King conceptualizes the shoal as a space where Black and Native literary traditions, politics, theory, critique, and art meet in productive, shifting, and contentious ways.

Tiffany Lethabo King is an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University. King’s research interests include Black Studies, Indigenous Studies, Diaspora Studies, and gender and sexuality. King is the author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Duke University Press, 2019). 

Free and open to the public. Please email the BBQ+ organizers to RSVP.

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