“Race, Citizenship, and the End(s) of Black Politics: The Case of Kanye West’s Diamonds (Are from Sierra Leone)”, presented by Roopali Mukherjee, Associate Professor of media studies at CUNY-Queens College, will take place at the Communication Studies Department’s Wednesday Noon Research meeting on May 6, 2009 at 12:15 p.m. in Ford Hall B15.
“Race, Citizenship, and the End(s) of Black Politics: The Case of Kanye West’s Diamonds (Are from Sierra Leone)”
Roopali Mukherjee will be giving a talk entitled "Race, Citizenship, and the End(s) of Black Politics: The Case of Kanye West's Diamonds (Are from Sierra Leone)" at the Communication Studies Department's Wednesday Noon Research meeting on Wednesday, May 6 at 12.15 in Ford Hall B15.
Dr. Mukherjee is associate professor of media studies at CUNY-Queens College. She writes on race and racial discourse in US public and political culture and is the author of The Racial Order of Things: Cultural Imaginaries of the Post-Soul Era (UMN Press 2006). She is currently working on her next book, Mov On Up: Affluence and Enterprise at the "End of Black Politics" and two co-edited anthologies, Commodity Activism: Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times and Undoing Leviathan: Multidisciplinary Readings of the State.