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Hutchins Lecture: E. Patrick Johnson on Black Southern Queer Women
January 26, 2017 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
In our first Hutchins Lecture of the semester, “The Beekeeper: Collecting Oral Histories of Black Southern Queer Women,” E. Patrick Johnson will discuss the methodological challenges he faced while conducting research about women as a man. He’ll also perform excerpts from the oral histories he collected.
Johnson is Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of two award-winning books, Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity, and Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History. He is the editor of Cultural Struggles: Performance, Ethnography, Praxis by Dwight Conquergood (Michigan UP, 2013) and co-editor (with Mae G. Henderson) of Black Queer Studies—A Critical Anthology and (with Ramon Rivera-Servera) of solo/black/woman: scripts, interviews, and essays and Blacktino Queer Performance (Duke UP, 2016).
This lecture, co-sponsored by the Department of Communication and the LGBTQ Center, will be held in 039 Graham Memorial Hall. Free and open to the public.