Event

Join the The Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy for an event featuring Dr. Shatema Threadcraft on Necromancy and the Democratic Storytelling of W.E.B. Du Bois and Toni Morrison.

Shatema Threadcraft is an Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Philosophy and Political Science at Vanderbilt University and a 2023-24 Laurance S. Rockefeller Faculty Fellow at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. Her new book, The Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy and Morrisonian Democracy, examines the phenomenon of Black Femicide as well as how Ida B. Wells, Mamie Till Bradley, Clementine Barfield, Barbara Smith and Margaret Prescod have confronted disproportionate premature Black death and made transformative democratic interventions regarding those deaths.

Lecture and discussion, moderated by Dr. Katerina Traut.