Professor E. Patrick Johnson is chair, director of graduate studies, and professor in the Department of Performance studies and professor of African American studies at Northwestern University. He is also the author of the book Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South: An Oral History (University of North Carolina Press, 2008), which collects stories from the lives of 63 black, gay men who were born, raised and presently live in the South that Johnson interviewed from over 15 different states below the Mason-Dixon Line. Johnson will be performing a selection from his one-man show called "Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales," which explores how these narrators use the performance of "southerness" as a cultural identity to simultaneously conform to southern cultural ideals, but also to mediate, transgress, and sometimes subvert them. The show will be in Love Auditorium of the Levine Research Science Center on October 29th at 7:30pm.
Co-sponsors: Center for LGBT Life, Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, Multicultural Center, African and African American Studies and The Program in the Study of SexualitiesContact Information: Chris Purcell
Categories: Lecture/Talk, Theater