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MEDIA CONTACT: Frederick Douglass Institute (585) 275-7235 or Sharon Dickman sdickman@rochester.edu
585.275.4128
March 8, 2006
TIME, DATE, AND PLACE: 12:30 to 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 21, in room 314 of Morey Hall on the University of Rochester's River Campus
ADMISSION: Free and open to the public
Stephanie Li, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English at the University of Rochester, will discuss her study of 19th-century texts and the practice of "placage," a social arrangement involving free women of color and white men. Li will compare actual situations with their aspects of marriage and slavery as well as writings by social critics and foreign travelers of the time. Her lecture, titled "Malleable Mulattas and Resistant Silences: Placage and Louisa Picquet," is part of the Work in Progress Seminar series sponsored by the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies.
Li received her master's and doctorate degrees from Cornell University. She is currently teaching a course on immigration and American identity at the University of Rochester while working on a book titled Black Female Resistance and the Politics of Sexual Agency.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact the Frederick Douglass Institute at (585) 275-7235.
The University of Rochester (www.rochester.edu) is one of the nation's leading private universities. Located in Rochester, N.Y., the University gives students exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary study and close collaboration with faculty through its unique cluster-based curriculum. Its College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering is complemented by the Eastman School of Music, Simon School of Business, Warner School of Education, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, and the Memorial Art Gallery.
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