Lost Black Love Objects

Popular love objects in African American culture frequently hold elevated importance as performing crucial political work.
What do we lose when our love objects fall from grace? But more importantly, What possibilities emerge after the fall?
Join Rebecca Wanzo as she explores these questions using The Cosby show and Michael Jackson as examples.

Rebecca Wanzo is Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Associate Director of the Center for the Humanities at Washington University in St Louis. She received her Ph.D. in English from Duke University. Her first book, The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African American Women and Sentimental Political Storytelling was published by SUNY in 2009. Her primary research areas are affect theory, African American literature and culture, feminist theory, and popular culture (particularly graphic storytelling and representations of African Americans in popular culture).