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“An exhilaratingly smart and scary freak out about a black man in a white nightmare”. - The NYTimes
Now that Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams), have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with Missy and Dean. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined. Dr. Anna Everett, Professor of Film and Media Studies at UCSB will lead a post-film discussion. 1h 44 min.
Forgivable Whiteness: Sports, Race and the Last of the Great White Hopes Ben Carrington
MCC Theater
Ben Carrington will argue that sport has become the preeminent public space for the performance of white heterosexual masculinity that is underpinned by supra-national discourses of family. He examines the emergence of a particular form of white American masculinity, encapsulated in the term “the Great White Hope”. The expression, the Great White Hope, reveals how, in this moment in the early twentieth century, white masculine identity was produced as a negation of blackness. Carrington contrasts the “unforgivable blackness” of the current black athlete in contrast to the “forgivable whiteness” of the white athlete, and reflects upon the elevation of the white quarterback (the last of the Great White Hopes) within American culture in the context of what Ta-Nehisi Coates has referred to as America’s First White President. Dr. Ben Carrington is Professor of Sociology at University of Southern California.
Migration Is Natural: An Evening of Spoken Word Jess X Snow
MCC in SB
Migration is Natural is a hybrid spoken word poetry show, film screening and artist talk. Jess will talk about how she created a home for herself in her art and story-telling. She will share about her coming of age journey as an artist–how after the rootlessness and migrations that marked her childhood, she developed a stutter which she overcame through her discovery of visual and written language. Through her poetry, she channels the spirit of queer Chinese photographer Ren Hang, her immigrant mother, her ancestors and explores the creation of love and safety in the time of Trump America, and the queerness of the four billion year old mother Earth.
Constelacion de Sonidos, songs and stories of love, migration, displacement and resistance Los Cambalache
MCC Theater
Cambalache, meaning exchange, is a chicanx/jarochx ensemble based in LA. We will be playing traditional son jarocho music, while bringing our Chicanx experiences and soundscape through verse and dance. In the spirit of the fandango, a traditional celebration of music and dance, Cambalache engages its audience through participatory performances. Cambalache is active in the dialogue between Chicanos in the U.S. and Jarochos in Veracruz, thus strengthening decades of social and cultural exchange of the Chicano-Jarocho network.
$5 for UCSB students and youth under 12; $15 for general admission.
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