"RACE, FAITH, & SEXUALITY: OR A SNAPSHOT GENEALOGY OF THE GRATEFUL NEGRO": A Lecture by Dwight McBride

The Program in African and African American Studies Presents

"RACE, FAITH, & SEXUALITY: OR A SNAPSHOT GENEALOGY OF THE GRATEFUL NEGRO"


A Lecture by Dwight McBride
Leon Forrest Professor and Chair of African American Studies &
Professor of English and Communication Studies
Northwestern University

Author of Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality in America (New York University Press, 2005)

Wednesday March 29, 2006
John Hope Franklin Center
Room 240
4:00 PM

**Booksigning to Follow**


*AND*


“HEAD NEGROES IN CHARGE?: BLACK MASCULINITY IN THE ACADEMY”
A Panel Discussion Featuring

Dwight McBride, Leon Forrest Professor and Chair of African American Studies &
Professor of English and Communication Studies, Northwestern University

Houston Baker, Jr., Susan Fox Beischer & George D. Beischer Arts & Sciences Professor of English and Professor of African and African American Studies, Duke University

Maurice O. Wallace, Associate Professor,
English & African & African American Studies, Duke University

and

Mark Anthony Neal, Associate Professor,
African & African-American Studies, Duke University

Moderated by Alisha Gaines, Doctoral Candidate English, Duke University

Wednesday March 29, 2006
John Hope Franklin Center
Room 240
7:00 PM

Sponsored by African and African-American Studies, The Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Life, The Literature Program, the Program in Women’s Studies and the Institute for Critical U.S. Studies