Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
When we see a black body [President Barack Obama] embodying the American state, and particularly a black body that didn’t have to be black—that could have chose some other kind of intersectional identity. And was no, “I’m black.” On his census form, “I’m black.” And then married Michelle who looked black from way over there and got regular hair; and had some little black baby girls and braided their hair up; and then lived on the South Side of Chicago; and hung out with some black people; and just, “black, black, black, black, black.” Over and over again. And so it means something to us…
Pulitzer Prize winner and current Mississippi and United States Poet LaureateNatasha Trethewey will read her poetry at Jackson State University at 3 p.m. Sept. 20 in room 166/266 of the Dollye M.E. Robinson College of Liberal Arts Building.
This event will be hosted by the Margaret Walker Center at JSU and is free and open to the public.
In January, Trethewey was named the Mississippi Poet Laureate for a four-year term. Soon after, she was named the 19th U.S. Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress. Trethewey is the first person to serve simultaneously as a state and U.S. laureate.