'My Man Bovanne': A Black Feminist Critique of Black Power
Channel: Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: 2014-01-21

Full Title:
'My Man Bovanne': A Black Feminist Critique of Black Power and the Institutionalization of Movement Politics

Roderick A. Ferguson
Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota

Roderick Ferguson uses black feminist writer Toni Cade Bambara's short story to consider power brought about through the 1960s and 1970s student movements around race and gender. He examines how these forms of power informed state and capital's emerging tendencies toward minority culture -- tendencies that recommended affirmation rather than outright rejection of marginal cultures and identities as the new formula for discipline and exclusion.

This talk is part of the 10th Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History.

Hosted by:  Department of History, The Graduate Student Organizers of the Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History

In conjunction with: Beckman Institute, College of Engineering, College of Liberal Arts and Science, Department of African American Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of Architecture, Department of Classics, Department of Dance, Department of English, Department of French, Department of Human and Community Development, Department of Psychology, Department of Sociology, Gender and Women's Studies Program, Program in Jewish Culture and Society, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, School of Social Work, Spurlock Museum, and Women and Gender in  Global Perspectives Program

Thursday, March 5, 2009
7:30 pm
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum