CLA Women's and Gender Studies Speaker Series -- VÉNUS NOIRE: BLACK WOMEN AND COLONIAL FANTASIES IN 19TH-CENTURY FRANCE -- Dr. Robin Mitchell

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CLA Women's and Gender Studies Speaker Series -- VÉNUS NOIRE: BLACK WOMEN AND COLONIAL FANTASIES IN 19TH-CENTURY FRANCE -- Dr. Robin Mitchell

CLA WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES SPEAKER SERIES

ROBIN MITCHELL
Associate Professor
Department of History
California State University--Channel Islands

VÉNUS NOIRE:
BLACK WOMEN AND COLONIAL FANTASIES IN 19TH-CENTURY FRANCE
A Conversation with the Author

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9
2:00—3:30 P.M. (EST)

Virtual via zoom

Zoom registration link:
https://rit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0tduGgqD8rGNIYUQs6OwI7NyraKpdPMr…

Robin Mitchell received her master’s degree in Late Modern European History from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and her doctorate in Late Modern European History from the University of California, Berkeley, with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality. In addition to numerous journal articles, Professor Mitchell’s first book, entitled VÉNUS NOIRE: Black Women & Colonial Fantasies in 19th-Century France was published with University of Georgia Press in January of 2020, and was recently named to the African American Intellectual History Society's "Best Black History Books of 2020.”

https://ugapress.org/book/9780820354323/venus-noire/


Contact
Silvia Benso
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When and Where
February 09, 2021
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Room/Location: See zoom registration link
Who

Open to the Public

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No