Upcoming Teach-In: The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire by Dr. Erica R. Edwards
Photo of Dr. Erica R. Edwards. Photo courtesy of Erica R. Edwards.
Join us for an upcoming teach-in, “The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire” by Dr. Erica R. Edwards for The School for Black Feminist Politics.
On Tuesday, October 22nd at 6:30 PM EST, join us for an upcoming teach-in, “The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire” by Dr. Erica R. Edwards for The School for Black Feminist Politics, the political education hub of Black Women Radicals.
You can register for the teach-in here: https://bit.ly/TheOtherSideofTerror
ASL interpretation will be provided. The event will be recorded and uploaded to YouTube.
About the teach-in: This teach-in focuses on the questions Dr. Erica R. Edwards’ raises in her book, The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of U.S. Empire (NYU Press, 2021): How have the political and popular cultures of late US empire did US imperialism, through late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, relied on the incorporation of Black women as symbols of progress and triumph? What do Black feminist writers teach us about contemporary US imperialism and the role that black women play in its maintenance and in its refusal?
About Dr. Erica R. Edwards: Erica R. Edwards is Professor of African American Studies and English at Yale University. She is the author of The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of U.S. Empire (NYU Press, 2021), which was awarded the John Hope Franklin Prize from the American Studies Association, and Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), which was awarded the Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize. Edwards is the co-editor, with Roderick Ferguson and Jeffrey Ogbar, of Keywords for African American Studies. Her work on African American literature, politics, and gender critique has appeared in journals such as differences, Callaloo, American Quarterly, and American Literary History, and her public-facing work has appeared in venues such as The Washington Post, Public Books, and A-Line: A Journal of Progressive Thought. Her work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Institute of Citizens & Scholars, the Mellon Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
