PUBLIC TALK:
  Black Bodies, White Gold: cotton, art and the materiality of race
		
Mon, 13 Aug 2018 18:00 - Fox Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, UWA
		
A public lecture by Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Assistant Professor of Black
Diasporic Art, Princeton University.

This talk examines the visual relationship between the cotton trade and
the representation of blackness in American culture, using historical
case studies and contemporary art. Juxtaposing contemporary
interventions with historical moments, it examines how cotton materially
influenced the way black Americans were seen, and represented
themselves, as both enslaved and free. It argues that tracing this
relationship deepens our understanding of the intersections of vision,
value and subjectivity in the production of racial identity in
nineteenth-century America, and also today.
		
URL: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/arabindan-kesson
		
For more information:
  Institute of Advanced Studies
  ias@uwa.edu.au
  6488 1340

Starts       : Mon, 13 Aug 2018 18:00
Ends         : Mon, 13 Aug 2018 19:00
		
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