“The Lady with the Whip”: Gendered Violence and Social Death in Manderlay and Django Unchained

How do we conceptualize gender, violence and political organizing in Black life? What does it mean to understand slavery as an ongoing relationship? Join us for a talk by Frank Wilderson, Professor of African American Studies and Drama (UC-Irvine) and award-winning author of Incognegro and Red White and Black. Esther Armah (political commentator, playwright, and WBAI radio host) will join the discussion.

Co-sponsored by Sexual Violence Response, Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Institute for Research on Women & Gender, Barnard Center for Research on Women, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Women’s Heritage Month, Radical C.U.N.T.S. and the Black Students Organization.