The Bayard Rustin Center for LGBTQA Activism, Education and Reconciliation and the Guilford English Department are co-hosting an author talk. Mark Rifkin will be at on campus April 2, 2013 at 2pm to discuss his award winning book, "When Did the Indians Become Straight?"
Mark Rifkin is a UNCG English professor whose "research primarily focuses on Native American writing and politics from the eighteenth century onward, exploring the ways that Indigenous peoples have negotiated U.S. racial and imperial formations. In particular, he is interested in how U.S. law shapes the possibilities for representing Native political identity and the ways that Native writers have worked to inhabit, refunction, refuse, and displace dominant administrative formulations in order to open room for envisioning and enacting self-determination. More recently, he has been drawing on queer theory to rethink the role kinship systems have played in Native governance and internationalism and to address the ways U.S. imperialism can be thought of as a system of compulsory heterosexuality." (UNCG website) |