"Visualizing Black Lives: Representing Racism in Afro-Brazilian Media"

Reighan Gillam is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of Southern California.

Reighan Gillam researches the ways in which subjects experience, negotiate, and challenge stereotypical and controlling images. She examines these issues through the lens of Afro-Brazilian media producers in southeastern Brazil. She is currently working on a book manuscript, entitled Visualizing Black Lives, to understand how Afro-Brazilians turn to their racialized experiences as a source for visual content and the kinds of images they generate. In the Fall 2018, Harvard University’s David Rockefeller Center named her the Peggy Rockefeller Scholar.

Education

Ph.D. Anthropology, Cornell UniversityB.A. Anthropology, University of VirginiaThis talk is co-sponsored by Africana Studies and Research Center. Thank you.