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SUMMARY:Daughters of the Dust
DESCRIPTION:Film Synopsis:Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk-The women of the Peazant family struggle with a decision which will remake their relationship with their heritage and with each other. Julie Dash’s groundbreaking 1991 film tells the story of generational change in the Gullah community of the South Carolina sea islands with rich visual language and non-linear narrative.   \n\nContent Warning: drama\, romance\, violence\, profanity\, racial bias\, PG 18+ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe film was screened on February 1 via a virtual event and was followed by a community discussion facilitated by Professor Dana Olwan \n\n\nDana Olwan is an Associate Professor in the Master of Arts in Women\, Society\, and Development program at Hamad bin Khalifa University. Her work is located at the nexus of feminist theorizations of gender violence\, transnational solidarities\, and critical feminist pedagogies. Her writings have appeared in Signs\, Feminist Formations\, the Journal of Settler Colonial Studies\, American Quarterly\, and Feral Feminisms. Her first book Gender Violence and The Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime was published by Ohio State University Press in 2021. She is co-editor with Chandra Talpade Mohanty of the Reimagining Comparative Feminist Studies book series from Palgrave Macmillan. She teaches courses on feminist theory\, gender politics in the Middle East and North Africa\, and women\, labor\, and development. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n				\n				Additional Resources  			\n			\n								Beyoncé\, Lemonade (2016) \nKatherine McKittrick \n\n Demonic Grounds (Minnesota\, 2006) \nDear Science and Other Stories (Duke\, 2021). \nMay be worth linking directly to her site since there are multimedia formats to engage these texts\, including examples of her citational practices.\n\nSaidiya Hartman \n\n\n\n“Venus in Two Acts” Small Axe\, vol. 12 no. 2\, 2008\, p. 1-14. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/241115\nScenes of Subjection: Terror\, Slavery\, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford\, 1997).\n\n\n\n\nWayward Lives\, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls\, Troublesome Women\, and Queer Radicals (Norton\, 2020)\n\n 
URL:https://cirs.qatar.georgetown.edu/event/daughters-of-the-dust/
LOCATION:Education City\, Al Luqta St\, Ar-Rayyan\, Doha\, Qatar
CATEGORIES:American Studies,Race & Society
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