The circle of chairs at the inaugural meeting of The Future is Feminist: A Feminist Theory Book Club on Sept. 23 kept getting bigger and bigger as more people arrived, until the Buffalo Street Books Annex was full.
Positioning Beyoncé’s visual album, Lemonade, as a genre-defying text alongside her husband Jay-Z’s response record, 4:44, this essay argues that Lemonade is an exercise in autoethnographic kinship formation, one that utilizes representations of Beyoncé and her family—defined biologically in the conventional sense of the nuclear family and constructed more broadly to include a sisterhood of fictive kin—to reimagine how black marriage, sexuality, and kinship are popularly understood.
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Goldwin Smith G64
The Reuben A. and Cheryl Casselberry Munday Distinguished Lecture presents Imani Perry.
Imani Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where she is also affiliated with the Program in Law and Public Affairs, The University Center for Human Values and Jazz Studies. She is the author of the books: May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem, More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States, and Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop, and the forthcoming: Looking for Lorraine: The Radical and Radiant Life of Lorraine Hansberry and Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation. Perry writes book reviews for The New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, and has published scholarly articles in the fields of legal history, cultural studies and literary studies.
Africana Studies and Research Center, Multipurpose Room
Please join Akua Naru and Professor Oneka LaBennett for an interesting and informative dialogue.
Akua Naru is a Hip Hop artist, producer, activist, and scholar, who theorizes the myriad experiences of Black women through rhyme along a sonic spectrum from Jazz to Soul. She has released four albums: “...the journey aflame (2011)”, “Live & Aflame Sessions (2012)”, “The Miner’s Canary (2015)”, and “The Blackest Joy (2018)”--three on the label she co-founded, The Urban Era.
Currently she is a Nasir Jones Fellow, Hutchins Center for African & African American Studies, Harvard University (2018-19).
