The Fraught Crossroads

Lawrence Weschler, author

Using assemblage artist Edward Kienholz’s harrowing 1970 lynching tableau Five Car Stud as a point of departure, Lawrence Weschler explores the ways in which race has served as the radioactive core of American history, continually warping the potential for ordinary class-based politics and accounting for all manner of perverse American exceptionalisms (the subject of Weschler's current work-in-progress).

Sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities. Co-sponsored by the American Studies Department and the Orser Center for the Study of Place, Community, and Culture.