The Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology presents: "Who Are Your People? A Conversation about Class, Color and Community Among African Americans, Then and Now." With author of “The Paper Bag Principle,” Professor Audrey Kerr, moderated by Tom Ficklin (Ficklin Media)

The Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology presents:
"Who Are Your People? A Conversation about Class, Color and Community Among African Americans, Then and Now."
With author of “The Paper Bag Principle,” Professor Audrey Kerr,
moderated by Tom Ficklin (Ficklin Media).


WHERE: 4 SCIENCE PARK
DATE: FEBRUARY 20, 2013
TIME: 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Audrey Elisa Kerr is a professor of African American literature at Southern Connecticut State University. She is the author of The Paper Bag Principle:  Class, Colorism and Rumor and the Case of Black Washington, D.C., and she is considered “one of the nation’s leading authorities on color and colorism.”  Dr. Kerr has published over 100 articles, essays, book reviews and short stories on topics ranging from 9/11 memoir to HIV/AIDS and illness narratives.  Most of her work centers around issues of marginality, intersectionality, regionality and social acceptance.



FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT Melanie Seawright at mseawright@conncat.org

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