Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Please join the UF Mellon Intersections Group on Global Blackness and Latinx Identity in welcoming the first speaker in the Beyond Borders, Across Boundaries: Black and LatinX Knowledge Formations Speaker Series:

Ralina Joseph, University of Washington.

Ralina L. Joseph is an associate professor of Communication, and adjunct associate professor of American Ethnic Studies and Gender, Women, Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington, is also the founding director of the Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity.

How, in the course of a few short months, did Michelle Obama journey from being the presidential candidate’s wife who much of the media dismissed as the reason that her husband wouldn’t be elected president, to being one of the most beloved First Ladies in American history? In tonight’s event Ralina L. Joseph will explore the idea that our Forever First Lady performed the magic trick of “strategic ambiguity,” a theory she proposes in her new book, Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity.

This event will be followed by a book signing and reception.