In Praise of Black Performance

• Thursday, September 19
• 4:00 PM
• Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Mezzanine
• 121 Wall Street
• MAP
• FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Hanif Abdurraqib and Christina Sharpe are two of the most incisive cultural critics of our time. Their work explores what it means to be and to make art as a Black person in the present, but also in the long wake of slavery and colonialism. Esteemed professor and author Daphne Brooks leads the pair in a conversation about Black artistry.

Daphne A. Brooks is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Music at Yale University. She is the author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910 (2006), winner of The Errol Hill Award for Outstanding Scholarship on African American Performance from ASTR; Jeff Buckley’s Grace (2005) and Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound (2021).