In conjunction with the exhibition "Afterlives of the Black Atlantic," the museum presents a lecture by Christina Sharpe, professor in the Department of Humanities at Toronto's York University. Her research focuses on Black visual, queer, and diaspora studies. "The Guardian" named her most recent book, “In the Wake: On Blackness and Being,” as one of its best books of 2016. The book explores how contemporary Black lives are animated by the afterlives of slavery. Cosponsored by the Art History Baldwin Lectures Endowment. A reception will follow and galleries remain open until 7:30 p.m.

Christina Sharpe is Professor in the Department of Humanities at York University in Toronto. Her research focuses on black visual, queer, and diaspora studies in the context of modern and contemporary African American literature and culture. Professor Sharpe’s first book, “Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post Slavery Subjects” (2010), interprets a series of visual and literary texts to argue that the sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation continue to shape black and white subjectivities into the present. Her 2016 book “In the Wake: On Blackness and Being,” which shows how contemporary black lives are swept up and animated by the afterlives of slavery, was named by “The Guardian” as one of the best books of 2016.

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August 20, 2019 - May 24, 2020

Afterlives of the Black Atlantic

Works from the United States, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa explore the complexities of memory, identity, and b... Learn More