Troubling the Waters: Homoeroticism and the Politics of Identity in Black Visual Culture

Friday, February 16, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Petit Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: James Smalls, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

A Roman Catholic’s Closet: Another Look at Richmond Barthé’s Male Nudes

Margaret Rose Vendryes, York College, Graduate Center, City University of New York


Eye-to-Eye: Transmissibility and the Black Male Gaze: The Photography of Rotimi Fani-Kayode and Alex Hirst

David Dibosa, Wimbledon School of Art


If I’d Had a Cock I Would’ve Surely Had an Erection: Queering Adrian Piper’s Mythic Being

John P. Bowles, Indiana University


Afro-Latino Critique of a Kantian Enwhitened Idealism: Miguel Algarín’s Nuyorican Angels of Night

María DeGuzmán, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill


Rockin’ the Boat: Illegal Identities, Illegal Identifications

Robert Summers, University of California, Los Angeles


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