Virtual Event: Who has the rights to the story of a place?
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Tue, Apr 06 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
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Join us for a virtual conversation with Associate Professors for English, Dr. Felice Blake and Dr. Stephanie Batiste on storytelling, family history, and the Black experience in America through the book The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom.
This year’s Book to Action Keynote will explore the myriad themes of The Yellow House from both literary and justice perspectives by looking at what it means for the Black subject to speak the self and share that experience and the idea of representing an embodied experience through text. As Broom asks in the book, “Who has the rights to the story of a place?”
About Dr. Stephanie Batiste:
Dr. Stephanie Leigh Batiste is Associate Professor of English at The University of California at Santa Barbara and Director of the Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative. Her research and teaching areas include African American Literature and Culture, Race and Racism, Black Performance Studies, American Studies, Cultural Studies, and U.S. History. Her award-winning book, Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression Era African American Performance (Duke University Press, 2011) focuses on the relationship between power and identity in black theater, film, and dance to reimagine national belonging, race, and modernism. Also a creative writer and performer, she has written three plays: Stacks of Obits, Young Love Found and Lost: Six Poems in a Circle, and Blue Gold & Butterflies.
About Dr. Felice Blake:
Dr. Felice Blake is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published work on racism, culture, and resistance in Al Jazeera, Ethnic and Racial Studies, African American Review, and SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society. Dr. Blake is the author of Black Love Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American literature (Ohio State University Press) and co-editor of Antiracism Inc.: Why the Way We Talk About Racial Justice Matters (Punctum Books).