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Portrayals of Black Women
Judy Weightman
“Dragging the Black Church: Tyler Perry, Steve Harvey, and Rickey Smiley Perform Black Women,” a lecture at Ursinus College:
The African-American/Africana Studies program at Ursinus College presents a lecture by Rachel Jessica Daniel, an American Studies doctoral candidate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (and 2006 Ursinus graduate) on Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. in Pfahler Hall’s Musser Auditorium.
Daniel writes, “dragging the black church is a performative gesture that performers use to playfully define black church culture. Drag is a tool that [these men] use in order to make claims about race, gender, class, and theology.”
For more information, call the College Communications office at 610-409-3329.
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