Melissa Harris-Perry investigates the challenges facing contemporary black Americans. She works to understand the multiple creative ways that African American find agency in response to these challenges. Her latest book, Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America (Yale 2011), argues that persistent harmful stereotypes - invisible to many but painfully familiar to black women - profoundly shape black women's politics, contribute to policies that treat them unfairly, and make it difficult for black women to assert their rights in the political arena.
As well as a contribution to the African American Intellectual Culture Series, Melissa Harris-Perry's talk is a Clark Presidential Lecture and part of the university's celebration of Black History Month. The theme for the month's programs - "Black is..." - is both a statement and a question. It is designed to explore the complexities, challenges and opportunities of African American identity today.
This event is part of the African American Intellectual Culture Series.
Co-sponsored by Higgins School of Humanities, the Office of the President, Speakers Forum, the Black Student Union, Dean of the College, the Office of Intercultural Affairs, and the Martin Luther King and Black History Month Program Committee.
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