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Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual Event
The portrayal of Black athletes in sports, film, and television powerfully influences ideas of racial identity in America, and vice versa, argues Samantha N. Sheppard, the Mary Armstrong Meduski ’80 Assistant Professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University.
In a live, virtual Chats in the Stacks talk, Sheppard discusses the implications and meanings of race and representation in sports media as explored in her new book, Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen (University of California Press, 2020). Examining depictions of Black athletes in documentaries, feature-length and short films, television and music videos, as well as in images from real-life athletics, Sheppard explores the meanings of embodying, performing, and contesting Black representation.
A live Q&A will follow the talk. The audience is encouraged to write their questions into the Chat field for inclusion during this session.
Dial-In Information
Please register through the following link:
https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5mL2V3JeToGrSwE4ai40Ow
Cornell University Library, Department of Theatre, Film and Dance, Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Performing and Media Arts, Africana Studies and Research Center, American Studies Program, Minority, Indigenous, Third World Studies (MITWS rg)
Jenny Leijonhufvud
Samantha N. Sheppard
Department of Performing and Media Arts
Closed Captioning will be available
Please register through the following link: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5mL2V3JeToGrSwE4ai40Ow
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