MONDAY NIGHT LECTURE SERIES | HYPERBOLE: SENSE, SENSATION, SPECTACLE

Only Connect: On Blackness and Brownness

April 1 @ 6 P.M.
Daniel Family Commons, Usdan University Center

Whereas contemporary identity politics and their attendant struggles over representation tend to emphasize the competing and distinctive trajectories of blackness and brownness, this talk will seek to explore their mutual entanglement. Building on the author’s editorial work on José Esteban Muñoz’s forthcoming book, The Sense of Brown (Duke UP), and reflecting upon his own recently published book, Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (NYU Press, 2018), this talk will discuss contemporary art and performance at the intersection of blackness and brownness in order to posit the necessity of modes of collective dreamwork within the ongoing catastrophe of racial capitalism.