The Interruption of Everything: Toward a Black Feminist Theory of Time

A talk with author, college professor, cultural critic, and activist Dr. Brittney Cooper

Dr. Brittney Cooper is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She teaches courses on Black feminist theory, Black Intellectual Thought, Hip Hop, Gender and Media. Dr. Cooper is author of Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (University of Illinois Press 2017), winner of the Organization of American Historians Merle Curti Prize for Top Book in U.S. Intellectual History, and the New York Times best-selling ELOQUENT RAGE: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (St. Martin’s Press 2018), named a best book of 2018 by NPR, the Atlantic, and the New York Public Library, among others.

Presented by:
The Center for Black Visual Culture (CBVC) & Institute of African American Affairs (IAAA)
Co-sponsored by 370J Project, Africana Studies/Department of Social and Cultural Analysis-NYU and Dept. of Photography & Imaging