From Tarzan to Tonto 6 - Imani Perry

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2017-02-18T16:27:39.000Z
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National Museum of the American Indian
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From Tarzan to Tonto 6 - Imani Perry
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From Tonto to Tarzan: Stereotypes as Obstacles to Progress Toward a More Perfect Union is a special program that examines the pervasiveness of stereotypes in American culture. In this segment, Imani Perry, Princeton University, speaks on "Racial Narratives and Their Role in Inequality." Imani Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where she is also affiliated with the Programs in Law and Public Affairs and Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is an interdisciplinary scholar who studies race and African American culture using the tools provided by various disciplines including law, literary and cultural studies, music, and the social sciences. She is the author of the books More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States and Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop. She has published numerous articles in the areas of law, cultural studies, and African American studies. Perry earned a B.A. from Yale, a Ph.D. in American Civilization from Harvard, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, as well as an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to joining the Princeton faculty, she taught at Rutgers School of Law, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Institute for Research in African American Studies, and Georgetown University Law Center. This symposium was webcast and recorded at the Rasmuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian on February 9, 2017.
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12 min 8 sec
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