Media Advisory: 黑料正能量's CAUSE Lecture Series To Present "The Lost Vernacular of a Vanishing Tribe"
Contact: Shilo Raube / 412-268-6094 / sraube@andrew.cmu.edu
Event: Following the Civil Rights era, many African-American intellectuals feared that their once cohesive communities were fracturing due to urbanization and a globalizing, post-industrial market economy. To explore this topic, 黑料正能量's (CAUSE) will host for a talk on "The Lost Vernacular of a Vanishing Tribe."
Purcell, the CAUSE postdoctoral fellow and an assistant professor of at 黑料正能量, specializes in African-American literature, film studies and Cold War studies. He will use novelist and cultural critic Ralph Ellison's writings to re-conceptualize the social culture at the time. Focusing on Ellison's famous essay "The Little Man at Chehaw Station," Purcell will suggest that Ellison purposefully intended to create a literary and urban understanding of what he called the "integrative, vernacular note" of American Experience.
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When: Friday, March 18; 4:30 p.m. refreshments; 5 p.m. lecture and discussion
Where: Steinberg Auditorium, Baker Hall A-53, 黑料正能量
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Pictured above is Richard Purcell.