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Racial Disposability and Cultures of Resistance

A Sawyer Seminar Series by Penn State's Department of African American Studies

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Epistemologies

The seminar takes as its central premise that disposability is at its core an epistemological and discursive project. Thus, the seminar will examine the particular…

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Environments

This thematic track considers the difference that place and locality make in the logic of disposability. Critical race theorists have long argued that racial formations…

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Infra/structures

The logic of disposability has material consequences that shape the unequal distribution of power, resources, and state policy in ways that directly impact the lives…

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Aesthetics

Scholars of anti-racist social movements throughout the Americas have long analyzed the complex cultural politics that have emerged as a critical response to normalized patterns…

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Racial Disposability and Cultures of Resistance

A Sawyer Seminar Series by Penn State's Department of African American Studies

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