Blackface Imagery and Its Answers: Stereotyping from the Early Civil Rights Era to the Obama Era Thulani Davis, Journalist, Playwright and Author Tracing the cycles of call-and-response to generations of repeated, reworked and "reloaded" visual stereotypes of African Americans from their early days in print, regeneration in movies and new life on the internet, Thulani Davis will discuss how to "read" the images of objects designed to "serve" the viewer, such as common kitchen items depicting black faces, and show black responses to such imagery and how they in turn are recycled into new blackface. A global phenomenon, visual stereotypes have been used to promote colonization, immigration, products of all kinds, and the politics of inequality. Wednesday, February 27, 7:00 p.m. Proscenium Theater, Performing Arts and Humanities Building