Lecture: “Black Cultural Politics in a Color Blind Nation” by Tricia Rose

• Event Date: Thursday, November 1, 2012
• Time: 4:00 pm (CDT)

• Talk

This lecture explores some facets of the strange co-existence of the idea of "color blindness" as a social ideal in the context of a social reality in which race heavily determines economic and social outcomes, racially-coded political narratives fuel national belonging, and the entertainment industry regularly profits from mass consumption of narrow visions of "blackness." What kinds of alternatives do these conditions generate?

This event is Co-Sponsored by the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) and the Spurlock Museum.

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