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SUMMARY:Bodies Politic Talk: A Dark Cast: Disability\, Blackface\, and Fra
 nklin D. Roosevelt
LOCATION:Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB) 6020\, 34.413605\,
 -119.850647
DESCRIPTION:Drawing from her national best-selling book Darkology: Blackfa
 ce and the American Way of Entertainment\, Rhae Lynn Barnes will explore 
 the complex intersections of disability\, presidential power\, and racial
  masquerade. She will examine how minstrelsy and the dark cast of blackfa
 ce performance functioned both as cultural entertainment and a political 
 prosthetic during the Roosevelt era\, masking the physical vulnerability 
 of white children with polio while reinforcing racial hierarchies. Audien
 ce Q&A and a reception will follow.\n\nDr. Rhae Lynn Barnes is Assistant 
 Professor of American Cultural History at Princeton University. A fourth-
 generation Southern Californian\, she earned her B.A. from UC Berkeley an
 d her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Barnes is also the founder of th
 e digital education platform U.S. History Scene\, providing historical mu
 ltimedia curriculum resources to public schools.\n\nCosponsored by the IH
 C’s Bodies Politic series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment\n\n
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