“Obscene Gestures: Censorship, Morality, and Equality”
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USC-Lancaster Native American Studies Center 119 South Main Street, Lancaster, South Carolina 29720
Patrick Lawrence, USC Lancaster Associate Professor of English, will present “Obscene Gestures: Censorship, Morality, and Equality.”
“Obscene Gestures” explores the contradictions of censorship controversies surrounding literary and artistic works from Richard Wright’s Native Son and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye to works by Robert Mapplethorpe, 2 Live Crew and others. Lawrence dives into notorious obscenity debates, revealing how these controversies impacted culture in ways that reflected racial, gender and sexual stereotypes.
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