Vodoun, Vampires, and Body Snatching: Celebrating Black History Month with Laughter and Horror - Discussion panel on “Trading Places”

February 25, 5-6 p.m.

Panel on “Trading Places” (1983). You can watch the film via Swank Digital Campus

Guest Panelists:
Yousuf al Bulushi (Global & International Studies, UCI)
Bambi Haggins (Film and Media Studies, UCI)
Milton Reynolds (California Council for Social Studies)
Gabriela Corona Valencia (Education, UCLA)

How have filmic representations of white supremacist violence explained white eugenic fantasies? Are there limits to white curiosity about racial power over blackness? This film double feature and the esteemed panelists wrestle with the audiences, insights, and labors to represent Black interiority.

Can we begin to consider COVID-19, the refusal to wear masks, and the siege on the many state capitols and the national one in the context of public health disparities disproportionately ravaging Black and Latinx and Native communities?

Watch the recording of the event at: https://uci.zoom.us/rec/share/zZv223vy9z_6ashopoC0QqFArcsbdeWhHqcmFgM8lsEy5u-2jGcfDcroKCMIM8Ev.QKrO03yPLarOt4Bd?startTime=1614301124000