UK's African American Studies and Research Program
Carter G. Woodson Lecture Series
presents
"Your Average Nigga: A Performance"
October 21, 2010 from 4:30-6:00 PM
Lucille C. Little Black Box Theater
Fine Arts Building, Room 102
"Vershawn Ashanti Young is a performance artist and scholar. His one man show is adapted from his monograph,
Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity (Wayne State UP 2007). He is also Editor of
From Bourgeois To Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances (forthcoming, Wayne State 2011) and Co-Editor of
Code Meshing as World English: Policy, Pedagogy, Performance (forthcoming NCTE 2011). He is an Associate Professor of English, Rhetoric and African American Studies at the University of Kentucky."
Refreshments will be served.
For more information, contact Le Datta Grimes at 257-0187 or
aasrp@uky.edu
