Event Details
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Date & Time
Thursday, Oct 25, 2018 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Cost
Free and open to the public
Location
Wolff Auditorium, Jepson Center
Contact/Registration
Noralis Rodriguez-Coss
(509) 313-5927
Event Type & Tags
About This Event
In this presentation, Dr. Celeste pursues the anguish-filled question of 'what now?' via the trope she calls the wailing black woman to analyze the representational trajectory of black mothers mourning publicly to bring attention to injustices and black women’s public grief in reality television show The First 48. She addresses the following questions:
- How does the deployment of wailing black women relate to hegemonic narratives of black death, criminality, and citizenship?
- What are potential interventions of their affective labor?