Lecture by Janine Jones – “Much Ado about Blackness: Beauvoir Was Just Playing in the Dark”

Janine Jones, associate professor of philosophy at UNC Greensboro, will give a free public talk titled Much Ado about Blackness: Beauvoir Was Just Playing in the Dark, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 26 in UNC Asheville’s Sherrill Center, Ingles Mountain View Room.

Jones’ works lie at the intersection of issues pertaining to imagination, language, socio-ontological reality, and gender and race. In this talk, she will interpret Simone de Beauvoir’s understanding of gender in L’Invitée and The Second Sex through the figure of black female presence, inspired by Toni Morrison’s discussion of Africanist presence in Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Jones is the co-editor of Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics.

This event is sponsored by UNC Asheville’s Thomas H. Howerton and NEH Distinguished Professorships.