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A public lecture by Paul Spickard (Distinguished Professor of History and Affiliate Professor of Asian American Studies, Black Studies, Chicana/o Studies, East Asian Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Shape Shifters: Sometimes Race Changes
We are accustomed to thinking of identities—racial, ethnic, national, gendered, religious—as if they were permanent, essential, unalterable features of individuals and groups. The people whose lives are the subject of my research are more complicated than that. They are not tragic mulattoes, caught between two monoracial identities that reject them. They are not really X but passing for Y. They are shape shifters, people who, for various reasons, are changing races or other primary identities. This lecture sets out an agenda for understanding the phenomenon of racial change. My quest is to figure out what kinds of circumstances produce racial change, and what kind of work that change is doing.
Date and time: Monday, May 9, 2022, 18.00
Venue: ELTE BTK Rákóczi út 5., Room 356
All welcome!
The event is organized by Éva Eszter Szabó.