Brazilian Studies
Christen Smith, “The Sequelae of Black Life in Brazil and the US: Violence, Gender, Space and Time”
| March 5, 2019 | ||
| 3:30 pm | to | 5:00 pm |
Knight Library, Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium
“The Sequelae of Black Life in Brazil and the US: Violence, Gender, Space and Time”
Christen Smith, Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology
University of Texas at Austin
Christen Smith researches engendered anti-Black state violence and Black community responses to it in Brazil and the Americas. Her work primarily focuses on transnational anti-Black police violence, Black liberation struggles, the paradox of Black citizenship in the Americas, and the dialectic between the enjoyment of Black culture and the killing of Black people. Her book, Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence and Performance in Braziluses the lens of performance to examine the immediate and long-term impact of police violence on the Black population of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil and the grassroots movement to denounce and end this violence. Her more recent, comparative work examines the lingering, deadly impact of police violence on black women in Brazil and the U.S.
Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs, Center for the Study of Women in Society, Department of Anthropology, and the UO School of Law.
Visions of Social Difference: Race, Space, and Visuality in Rio de Janeiro
| January 12, 2018 | ||
| 12:00 pm | to | 1:00 pm |
Room 122
Knight Library Collaboration Center
1501 Kincaid St.
UO campus
Visions of Social Difference: Race, Space, and Visuality in Rio de Janeiro
A discussion with Dr. Lorraine Leu, Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies, Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) & Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Leu’s talk centers around pictorial representations of blackness in a neighborhood destroyed in 1922 and unpacks the visions of social difference they produce. These images include paintings, lithographs, political cartoons, and photographs that mobilize ways of looking that help us to understand the spatial and cultural constructions of racialized others. › Continue reading
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