THE BLACK VISUAL EXPERIENCE: HENDRIX, PORN AND AUTHENTICITY & DESIRE AND THE ENRAPTURE OF CAPITAL...

Colloquium | December 2 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 652 Barrows Hall

Speakers: ARIANE CRUZ, Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, African American Studies; PERCY C. HINTZEN, Professor, UC Berkeley, African American Studies

Sponsor: African Studies, Center for

FACULTY/GRADUATE STUDENT WORK-IN-PROGRESS COLLOQUIUM

BIOS
Ariane Cruz received her B.A from Stanford University in the Practice of Art (painting and drawing) and African American Studies. She is currently in the African Diaspora Studies PhD Program at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also received her M.A. She maintains a scholarly interest in visual culture and the black female body. Her dissertation, Berries Bittersweet: Visual Representations of the Black Female Body in Contemporary American Pornography, explores the exciting areas of overlap between these two areas, as well as reflects her interest in images of black female sexuality. She is also member of the designated emphasis program in Women, Gender and Sexuality at UC Berkeley.

Percy C. Hintzen is Professor of African American Studies and Chair of the Center for African Studies at the University oif California, Berkeley. He is a former department chair of African American Studies. He is also a former Director of Peace and Conflict Studies at Berkeley and Acting Director of the Center for Race and Gender. He served as President of the Caribbean Studies Association in 2006-2007 and is currently on the Executive Committee of the Cultural Studies Association. He holds a Ph.D. in comparative political sociology from Yale University. His principal areas of research are post-colonial political economy of the English-Speaking Caribbean and the global black Diaspora. His publications include The Costs of Regime Survival: Racial mobilization, elite domination and control of the state in Guyana and Trinidad (Cambridge Univ. Press),West Indian in the West: Self-representations in an immigrant community (New York University Press) and (with Jean Rahier) Problematizing Blackness: Self ethnographies by Black immigrants to the United States (Routledge) as well as numerous articles in journals and chapters in edited volumes.

Attendance restrictions: Free and open to the public.

Event Contact: 510-642-8338

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