Spring 2023 Mellon Forum: Spatial Storytelling // April 11 with Keisha-Khan Perry and Ana Ozaki

Boats, Beaches, and Bairros
Date
Apr 11, 2023, 12:00 pm1:30 pm
Location
School of Architecture and Zoom

Details

Event Description

 

Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment

Spring 2023 || Spatial Storytelling


Boats, Beaches, and Bairros 

with

Keisha-Khan Perry, Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania

and

Ana Ozaki,  Princeton-Mellon Fellow in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities 


This is a hybrid event. Attend in person at the School of Architecture (lunch boxes available while supplies last), or register for the Zoom webinar:


https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cr7UGrwqTXSqn5F-HiWufg

 


 

Black feminist scholar bell hooks (1952-2021) gave us innumerable conceptual tools to understand the complexities of race, gender, and place. Her critical essay "Homeplace: A Site of Resistance," first published in the 1990 Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural politics, illustrates how the homeplace can represent spaces of oppression as well as liberation. In this presentation, I narrate stories from coastal cities across the Americas to explore the neighborhoods where the cultural imagination and radical politics flourish even as poor and people of color experience the brutality of white supremacist violence and spatial displacement. In hooks' formulation, the oppressed make home in inhospitable places, resist the gendered racial domination of space, and demand a sense of cultural and political belonging. I tell the stories of how social movement activists fight to keep beachlands as Black homespaces, where they have forged communities and survived amidst the violence for generations. 

 


The Spring 2023 Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment is kindly sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and the Princeton University Humanities Council, Program in Latin American Studies, Center for Collaborative History, Departments of Art & Archaeology and English, HMEI, PIIRS, SPIA, and the School of Architecture.

Mellon Forum events are free and open to the public. Boxed lunches are available while supplies last.