About the Keynote
In this talk, Samantha Pinto (University of Texas at Austin) will start from Patricia J. Williams’s Black feminist classic, The Alchemy of Race and Rights, to reconsider how we tell the stories of Black feminist thought and institutional feminist study. The keynote has been created in collaboration with Jennifer C. Nash (Duke University) who unfortunately is unable to attend the event herself.
Taking seriously the sustained focus on white women & white feminism as bad objects and actors in the history & present of feminism, we engage how whiteness in black feminism has been both an occluding and elucidating way to refract black women as subjects of the field. We pay particular attention to the social reproduction of race in analyses of gestation, birth, and motherhood and the opportunities these sites represent for disorienting intersectional analysis. By challenging feminism’s critical attachments to ethical property, this talk offers a way forward in feminist study that imagines uncertainty as a core method and value of Black feminist inquiry.
This is the public keynote speech of Blackness and the Knowledge(s) of Intersectionality: An International and Interdisciplinary Conference.
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This event will be streamed live on YouTube. No registration necessary.
About the Speakers
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Samantha Pinto
Samantha Pinto is Professor of English and affiliated faculty of African & African Diaspora Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic and Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights, and the co-editor of the collection Writing Beyond the State and the Duke University Press book series “Black Feminism on the Edge.” She is currently working on a third book, Inside the Body of Black Feminism, as well as books on feminist ambivalence and on divorce.
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Jennifer C. Nash
Jennifer C. Nash is the Jean Fox O'Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography (awarded the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association), Black Feminism Reimagined (awarded the Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize by the National Women's Studies Association), and Birthing Black Mothers, and the editor of Gender: Love. Her current book project is How We Write Now: Living With Black Feminist Theory.
Organizers
Julia Faisst (University of Regensburg/Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt), Bavarian American Academy
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