Kane Lecture: "Common Disaster: Brown Kinship and the Social Heritage of Slavery” by Manu Chander

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January 14, 2022
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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2022-01-14 16:00:00 2022-01-14 17:00:00 Kane Lecture: "Common Disaster: Brown Kinship and the Social Heritage of Slavery” by Manu Chander 2022 Kane Lecture:  “Common Disaster: Brown Kinship and the Social Heritage of Slavery” By Manu Chander, Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University-Newark Friday, January 14th at 4:00pm, via Zoom (access event at this link.) During this year’s Kane Lecture, Professor Manu Chander will discuss “brown kinship” through an analysis of works by W.E.B. Du Bois, José Esteban Muñoz, and Walter Rodney.  Chander’s talk is drawn from his larger project, Browntology, considering the philosophical groundings of brownness in Enlightenment European thought in order to show how the figure of the model minority haunts foundational efforts to define the human. This talk is online; all students and faculty are welcome to attend!  No registration is necessary, and you can access the meeting via the Zoom link above. Virtual America/New_York public
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2022 Kane Lecture:  “Common Disaster: Brown Kinship and the Social Heritage of Slavery”

By Manu Chander, Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University-Newark

Friday, January 14th at 4:00pm, via Zoom (access event at this link.)

During this year’s Kane Lecture, Professor Manu Chander will discuss “brown kinship” through an analysis of works by W.E.B. Du Bois, José Esteban Muñoz, and Walter Rodney.  Chander’s talk is drawn from his larger project, Browntology, considering the philosophical groundings of brownness in Enlightenment European thought in order to show how the figure of the model minority haunts foundational efforts to define the human.

This talk is online; all students and faculty are welcome to attend!  No registration is necessary, and you can access the meeting via the Zoom link above.

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