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Talk on ’Video Vixens, Beauty Culture’ set Oct. 19
4:53 p.m., Oct. 12, 2006--Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, professor of African-American and diaspora studies, French, women's studies and American and Southern studies at Vanderbilt University, will be the guest speaker at the inaugural lecture in the fall 2006 Distinguished Lecture Series in Black American Studies, set for 5 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 19, in 104 Gore Hall. Sharpley-Whiting's talk, “'Beautiful': Video Vixens, Beauty Culture and Diasporic Sex Tourism,” will explore issues between hip-hop culture and beauty culture, particularly in how the two cultures are juxtaposed in hip-hop videos and in how the use of images is bolstering African-American sex tourism in Brazil. Sharpley-Whiting is the 2006 recipient of the Horace Mann medal, awarded each year to a Brown University graduate who has made significant contributions to scholarly research. Her academic interests include feminist theory, Paris during the jazz age, film, hip-hop culture and Francophone studies. She is the author of a recently published book, Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Young Black Women, Hip-Hop and the New Gender Politics, and is currently at work on a book about women in Jazz-age Paris. Sharpley-Whiting received her doctorate in French studies, with a minor in African-American literary and cultural criticism, from Brown University. Besides her professorships at Vanderbilt, she also directs the African-American and Diaspora Studies Program and the William T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies at Vanderbilt. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information on this event, call (302) 831-2897. |
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