The Fraught Crossroads
Exploring race in American History
The Fraught Crossroads Where Class, Race, Sex and Violence Keep Converging across American History, Lawrence Weschler, author
Using assemblage artist Edward Kienholz's harrowing 1970 lynching tableau Five Car Stud as a point of departure, Lawrence Weschler explores the ways in which race has served as the radioactive core of Ameican hsitory, continually warping the potential for ordinary class-based politics and accounting for all manner of perverse Amrican exceptionalisms (the subject of Weschler's current work-in-progress).
Sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities, Co-sponsored by the American Studies Department and the Orser Center for the Study of Place, Community, and Culture.