Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Dr. Kaila Story - Friday 9/27 in the Law Building, Room 110


Greetings, Class.


Dr. Kaila Story will be giving a lecture to a large group of students on Friday, September 27, 2013 at Noon. We will attend this lecture for our class session.   The lecture will be given in the Law Building Room 110.  
Be on time or early! :)




Kaila Story

Kaila, 11

Ph.D. in African American Studies and Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies, Temple University, 2007.

Dr. Kaila Story is Assistant Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, with a joint appointment in the Department of Pan-African Studies. She holds the Audre Lorde Chair in Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.


Her research explores the intersections of race, class, and sexuality in identity performance, mass media, body politics, and the like. She is assessing how reality television posits Black and Female identity and reinforces past controlling images of Black women. Her other research interests are Gender Socialization, Transnational Sexualities, Black feminisms, and Transnational Feminisms. 



Dr. Story also spoke about some of the insights from bell hooks.  Here are some of bell hooks theories and cultural criticism.


bell hooks - cultural criticism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLMVqnyTo_0&list=PL5A99EF9376125764