20/21 C. Colloquium: Anne Cheng “Sushi, Otter, Mermaids: Race at the Intersection of Food and Animal”

“Sushi, Otter, Mermaids: Race at the Intersection of Food and Animal”

Anne Anlin Cheng is Professor of English and of the Center for African American Studies and incoming Director for the Program in American Studies. She is the author of The Melancholy of Race: Assimilation, Psychoanalysis, and Hidden Grief (Oxford University Press) and Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface (Oxford University).