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Armond White

Start Date

7-3-2013 4:30 PM

End Date

7-3-2013 5:30 PM

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This talk will examine the route of Black autonomy in popular culture. Using key literary, cinematic, musical texts from the early 1900s to the present that evidence the aesthetic use of blackness, it will detail the evolution of Black Power as both an aesthetic and political construct.

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Mar 7th, 4:30 PM Mar 7th, 5:30 PM

Monster: How Celebrity Effects Black Identity

This talk will examine the route of Black autonomy in popular culture. Using key literary, cinematic, musical texts from the early 1900s to the present that evidence the aesthetic use of blackness, it will detail the evolution of Black Power as both an aesthetic and political construct.