Taft Lecture, English: Dr. Sue J Kim 1/6

Sue J. Kim
Associate Professor of English
University of Alabama at Birmingham

April 21, 2011
Gives the talk:
'This Game is Rigged, Man': Cognition, Race, & the Politics
of Anger in 'The Wire'

Sue J. Kim is the author of Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race (2009). Her current project, On Anger, seeks to bring together insights into political anger developed in the fields of ethnic, postcolonial, and women's
studies with recent work on emotion in cognitive studies and narrative theory.

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