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Thinking Black Children: Innocence, Memory, and Deadly Play

  • Old Refectory 409 Prospect Street New Haven, CT, 06511 United States (map) 
This graduate panel engages the fragility of Black childhood and the multiple performances it engenders to subsist amid terror. Paper topics will orbit racialized innocence, historiographies of Black children, and moments of play for Black Children. These conversations will span the fields of Religious Studies, Black Studies, Black Feminist Theory, and Black Queer Studies.
Panelists: Corwin Malcolm Davis (Emory University), Jordan Taliha McDonald (Harvard University), Mae (Mélena) Laudig (Princeton University), Sutton Smith (Yale University)
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