Dis-Respectability: Towards A Ratchet Black Feminism with Dr. Brittney Cooper
Join us for an engaging dialogue with Dr. Brittney Cooper, assistant professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana studies at Rutgers University. The talk will include Hip Hop music, television, film and current events as a backdrop for addressing the limitations of respectability politics as a productive framework for thinking about representations of race, gender, and sexuality in popular culture. Dr. Cooper’s argues for a distinct turn away from the politics of respectability, and for an intentional embrace of "ratchetness," as a form of feminist celebration and resistance.
Dr. Cooper is the co-founder of the Crunk Feminist Collective, and she has written for Salon, the New York, The Root, the Washington Post, and Ebony.com, among other publications. She is working on a book called "Race Women: Gender and the Making of a Black Public Intellectual Tradition."
Co-sponsored with the African American Cultural Center, Asian American Cultural Center, Puerto Rican Latin American Cultural Center, and the Rainbow Center.
Wednesday, 6pm, Student Union Theatre
For more information, contact: Kathy Fischer at kathy.fischer@uconn.edu