Sep 25 2019
Book Launch: Micah E. Salkind, “Do You Remember House?: Chicago’s Queer of Color Undergrounds”

Book Launch: Micah E. Salkind, “Do You Remember House?: Chicago’s Queer of Color Undergrounds”

Presented by Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University and John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University - John Nicholas Brown Center

Featuring the author

— Dr. Micah Salkind, Special Projects Manager for The City of Providence Department of Art, Culture + Tourism, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Humanities in the Department of American Studies at Brown University

With commentary from

— Dr. Aymar Jean “AJ” Christian, Associate Professor of communication studies at Northwestern University.

— Latham Zearfoss works in Chicago, where they produce time-based images, objects, and experiences about selfhood and otherness.

Engaging with and extending the fields of African American studies, urban studies, gender and sexuality studies, dance studies, performance studies, popular music studies, ethnomusicology, and media studies, Do You Remember House? considers house music culture’s liberatory potential in relation to its flexible repertoire in motion, an ever-expanding archive of danceable sounds perseverance.

Admission Info

Free admission

Dates & Times

2019/09/25 - 2019/09/25

Additional time info:

Book sale, book signing, and reception to follow.

Location Info

Brown University - John Nicholas Brown Center

Brown University, Providence, RI 02903