Matthew Guterl (Brown) “The Afterlife of Racial Passing”

Matthew Guterl is the L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies at Brown University. He is a historian of race and nation, with a focus on United States history from the Civil War to the present. He has written four books. The first on race and the Progressive Era, the second on Southern slaveholders and the Caribbean, the third on the history of and cultural context for racial profiling, and the fourth on the life of Josephine Baker. He has also co-authored, with Caroline Levander, a book on the politics of the modern hotel. Right now, he is working on a book on class-passing, cross-dressing, and race-passing tentatively titled Faking It: Deception & the Afterlife of Racial Passing. (Over Zoom)