Professor Roderick A. Ferguson published his book The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference (University of Minnesota Press, 2012). He will be giving a talk about his research on Monday, October 22nd at 3:30pm in 105 Scott Hall as part of the Black Studies and American Studies at the Crossroads speaker series.
His book is now available through the University of Minnesota Press; Click here for more info.
Roderick Ferguson
The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference
Monday, Oct 22nd, 2012
3:30pm - 5pm, room 105 Scott Hall
Talk Description:
In this talk, Roderick A. Ferguson discusses his new book The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference. The talk will explore the origins of the book and its argument that state, capital, and academy found ways to learn from the social movements of the fifties and sixties, ways that would evolve a mode of power that came in the wake of liberation, a mode that would try to put forms of minority difference in the service of hegemony.
Bio:
Roderick A. Ferguson is professor of race and critical theory. He is the author of Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (2004) and the co-editor with Grace Hong of Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization (2011). His new book The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference is forthcoming with the University of Minnesota Press in October of 2012.
