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2/15/99

LECTURER AT SLU TO DISCUSS MEANING OF STEREOTYPES

CANTON - Manthia Diawara, professor of comparative literature and film 
and director of the Africana Studies program and the Institute of Afro-American 
Affairs at New York University, will give the annual Phi Beta Kappa Visiting 
Scholar lecture at St. Lawrence University on Tuesday, February 23, at 7:30 p.m. 
in the auditorium of Hepburn Hall.
	His lecture topic is "The Changing Historical Meaning of the 'Stereotype' 
in Popular Culture: Images of Black Folks in African and African-American Art," 
and the event is open to the public, free of charge.
	Diawara will argue in the lecture that despite the landmark changes in our 
society, the content of stereotypes is still considered as the same. He states 
that there is a contradiction between how people see themselves and the way they 
are represented by politicians, artists and the media. Diawara's lecture will 
draw on films such as Pulp Fiction, Bulworth and She's Gotta Have It; artworks by 
David Hammons, Kara Walker, Michael Ray Charles and David Levinthal; and other 
forms of popular culture.
	A native of Mali, Diawara studied in France and the United States, and has 
also taught at the University of California-Santa Barbara and the University of 
Pennsylvania. He is an accomplished scholar and film-maker who has published widely 
on film and literature of the Black diaspora.

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