Campus Announcements

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of American Studies and the 25th anniversary of the Multicultural Resource Center at Reed, the American Studies Committee will host a campus visit by Yannick Marshall of Colby College as part of Office of Institutional Diversity’s New Scholars Series. 

LECTURE: "Negrophobic Killings as Sex: Pleasure at the Site of the Injured Black Body"

Monday, October 9, 6:15 pm, PAB 320

Is it possible that sexual gratification is derived from injuring and witnessing the injury of the black body? If the history of black subjection to white power has also and always been a history of sexual violence—if mastery over the black body has also meant an effort to convert the body into a site of pleasure for the master through rape, the prostration and display of the lynched body, minstrelsy, debasement, and incapacitation—are police killings really outside of this tradition? Considering cases of negrophobic violence, Professor Marshall will make the case for a closer examination of anti-blackness and policing as white supremacist erotophonophilia. 

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SEMINAR: "Topics in #BlackLivesMatter"

Monday, October 9, Noon-2 pm, PAB 104.

This seminar will draw on Yannick Marshall’s “#BlackLivesMatter” course.  Space is limited; please email Ruby White at rwhite@reed.edu by October 2 to reserve your place and receive the readings.  Lunch will be provided for all participants.

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Yannick Marshall is Visiting Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology at Colby College.  He received his Ph.D in Middle East, South Asian and African Studies from Columbia University, writing the dissertation The Bleaching Carceral: Police, Native, and Location in Protectorate Nairobi, 1844–1920, a history of urban policing and settler violence that reads British-colonial Kenya as a theater for white supremacy.