IPP Workshop Series: ‘Ain’t I a woman?’: Mapping Race and Gender Scholarship (Ewelina Pepiak)

Although seminal works on race, gender and representations appeared mostly in the 1990s (Shohat, 1991; Dyer, 1997), critical race and gender scholarship emerged at least a decade earlier and continues to inspire debates within cultural studies today. This workshop aims at presenting and mapping the leading works in critical whiteness studies and black feminism. We will look at extracts from classical works, such as White Privilege (Macintosh, 1989) and Bell Hooks’ Black Looks (1993) in order to determine key terms, concepts and methodological devices used in critical race and gender theories.

In the practical part of the workshop, we will analyse fragments of recent contributions to decolonial feminism (Emejulu, 2019; Verges, 2019). We will look at several examples of recent gendered and racialised images and reflect on ways of analysing them. The overall aim is to understand how classical and recent theories can help researchers study gendered and racialised representations beyond both identity politics and neoliberal post-racialism. 

This workshop will be accessible five minutes before 14:00 through the following link:

https://uni-giessen.webex.com/meet/ipp20-21

Note: The sessions of the IPP Workshop Series are open for BA, MA and PhD students and the participants do not require any previous knowledge to take part.

// Ewelina Pepiak (IPP)