Gilman Whiting, visiting assistant professor of Africana studies and Grinnell Fellow, spoke at Brown University this fall as part of the 2003-2004 Wayland Faculty Seminar "Incarceration, Narrative and Performance." Whiting's lecture was titled "African Americans, Parenting, and Prison: Inside Voices The seminar provided an interdisciplinary examination of "incarceration studies" (history, sociology, criminology, community health, and political science); narrative (memoirs, political manifestoes, literature on ethnicity, race, gender, and captivity); and performance studies (theatre, communication, visual art). Through the humanities, arts and social sciences we explore captivity, community, and democracy in the prison state.
Readings discussed in this seminar include texts by Foucault, Gramsci, and Althusser; Brown faculty research; and articles by visiting speakers and scholars (please see the seminar agenda for public lectures co-sponsored by the Wayland Seminar and the Rhode Island Council on the Humanities).
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/African_American_Studies/wayland_fac_seminar/introduction.html
