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Past Events

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TBD Public Talk at Middlebury College
TBD Book Talk at Middlebury College
Respondent to Steven Thrasher. Arlene Gottfried: Photographic Chronicler of American Studies. Daniel Cooney Gallery.
Black Portraitures at Brooklyn Academy of Music
Oct 16
Black Portraitures at Brooklyn Academy of Music

Screening of Garrett Bradley’s America: A Journey Through Race and Time, followed by a panel discussion with Racquel Gates, Michael B. Gillespie & Nicole R. Fleetwood.

Keynote at Brigham Young University
'Althea' Panel Discussion George Washington University
Book Talk at Lafayette College
Reading
Sep 12
Reading
“Living Color: Black 90s TV" @ BAM
Conversation with Gerard Brown @ BAM
Coming to American and Double Negativity @ Georgetown University
“The Politics of Reality Television” at The Dalton School
“Double Negative: Pleasure and Politics in Black Popular Culture” at Northwestern University
Double Negative: Race, Popular Culture, and the Politics of ‘Quality' at The University of Chicago
“Beyond the Sunken Place" at The University of Chicago
“Negative Kanye" @ Washington University
“Strategic Negativity: Ratchetness and Reality Television" at Washington University
“(Respectability) Politics and (Guilty) Pleasures" at Fordham University.
Feeling Some Type of Way: The Revolutionary Politics of “Ratchet” Reality Television @ the College of Staten Island
Double Negatives: African American Representation @ Emerson College
“My Job Is To Be a Bad Bitch: Reality Television as 'Negative' Representation" at The University of Iowa
Discussion of Marlon Riggs’s Ethnic Notions at BAM
“That Ain’t a Black Film?” at Flying University (Caveat NYC)

Past Events: 2018 and Earlier

2018

“Double Negative: Racquel Gates Reframes Coming to America.” Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). December 4, 2018.

Voice of a Woman Festival. November 17, 2018.

“Finding Your Voice in Short Film.” BRIC. November 13, 2018.

“Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture.” Emory University. November 8, 2018.

“Black Identity in Popular Media.” Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema. November 1, 2018.

“Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture.” Yale University. October 11, 2018.

“Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture.” Videology. October 7, 2018.

“Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture.” Museum of the Moving Image. September 28, 2018.

“Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture.” Cornell University. September 20, 2018.

Introduction. White Chicks. Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). July 14, 2018.

Introduction. Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami. Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). April 17, 2018.

Q&A with director Lizzie Borden. Born in Flames screening. Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). March 8, 2018.

“The Spook Who Sat By The Screen: Blackness and Genre in Get Out.” Columbia University. February 27, 2018.

Race and Representation panel. Film Comment Selects series. Film Society of Lincoln Center. February 24, 2018.

Introduction. Cleopatra Jones. Fight the Power: Black Superheroes on Film series. Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). February 3, 2018.

Introduction. Foxy Brown. Fight the Power: Black Superheroes on Film series. Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). February 3, 2018.

2017

“Dimensions in Black: Perspectives on Black Film and Media launch event.” Lincoln Center. December 5, 2017.

2016

“Media Blackness.” CUNY Graduate Center. November 14, 2016.

“Double Negatives: Quality and Ratchetness in Televisual Blackness.” Columbia University Seminar on the Sites of Cinema. April 28, 2016. 

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Racquel’s research focuses on blackness and popular culture, with special attention to discourses of taste and quality. She is the author of Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture. Contact her below for information on bookings and availability.