The Americanist Speakers and Colloquium Series presents:

Xiomara Santamarina
University of Michigan

Public Lecture:
"Reclassifying Group Identity: 19th Century African American Chroniclers of the 'Higher Classes.'"
Thursday, April 24, 2008 @ 4:00 in 7191 HC White NOTE ROOM CHANGE

Brownbag: 1:00 pm 7191 HC White -- readings:
Santamarina's "From Chimney Sweep to Labor Reformer: Frederick Douglass's Class and Labor Politics" (draft) to be discussed with her review "Thinkable Alternatives in African American Studies." [note: also available in Department Library]

XIOMARA SANTAMARINA is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan. She is chiefly interested in 19th Century African American literatures with a primary focus on autobiography and slave narratives; antebellum fiction and prose; economic criticism; theories of value, race and labor. Her secondary interests include U.S. Literature and feminist theory. Her publications include Belabored Professions: Narratives of African American Working Womanhood (UNC Press, 2005). She is the editor of a forthcoming scholarly edition of Eliza Potter A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life (1859: Repr. UNC Press). She has essays in Feminist Studies, American Quarterly, American Literature and Legacy. Her chapter “Raced Womanhood in North American Slave Narratives” appears in The Cambridge Companion to the Slave Narrative (ed. by Audrey Fisch, Cambridge UP, 2006). Her forthcoming publications include: “Are we there Yet?:  Racial Destinations in African American Literary Studies” in American Literary History; “Teaching Antebellum African American Texts” in Beyond Douglass (ed. Michael Drexler). Her works in progress include:  “African American Chroniclers of the ‘Higher Classes’” and “Reclassifying Race in 19th century African American Literature” (book manuscript).