“A Higher Power to the People”
Dr. Massie sits down with Eddie Robinson for the I See U podcast to talk about what inspires her new course, “Black Feminist Science Studies” — from intersectionality, Afrofuturism, and her own family legacy with science.
“Race and Representation”
Dr. Massie talks with John Sparagana, Professor in Rice’s Visual and Dramatic Arts Department, about his latest exhibition, their shared interests in destabilizing “the gaze” with technology, and how her work on race and DNA resonated with his artistic practice.
Listen to the Bermac Sessions hosted by Lan Li and Tani Barlow
What’s new about “new materialisms”?
“As the “New Materialisms” discourse continues to gain traction across multiple fields of inquiry, we (Jen Smith, Marcelo Garzo Montalvo, and Victoria M. Massie) come together as scholars of Xicanx/Latinx Studies, Native American/Indigenous Studies and postcolonial African Studies to open up a space of dialogue on the subject. Bringing into question the newness of “New Materialisms” invites us to critique some of the larger problems we encounter in this emerging literature; namely Eurocentrism, colonialism, universalism, and related erasures of race, class, gender, sexuality and other dynamics of power. “ Sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley Center for Race & Gender.