This talk is on March 29, 2018 at 4:00 p.m. in Levis Faculty Center, Room 300 (919 West Illinois Street, Urbana, IL): In this talk, Prof. Metzl addresses how the automatic assumption that white shooters are isolated, deranged individuals conveys the subtle message that whiteness in general, and white masculinity specifically, is not connected to any larger cultures, networks or ideologies that might foment violence. Such framing allows Americans, white Americans in particular, to avoid pondering any number of larger narratives that might provide wider contexts in which to understand the trauma of modern-day mass shootings—and that might force us to consider taking charged or controversial actions to prevent them. Learn more about this event and the speaker Jonathan M. Metzl at http://calendars.illinois.edu/detail/4639?eventId=33289037.
This lecture is organized by the Medical Humanities Research Cluster, with the support of IPRH and the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, and co-sponsored by African American Studies, Anthropology, Asian American Studies, Communication, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, Latina/Latino Studies, Kinesiology and Community Health, Media & Cinema Studies, Psychology, Sociology, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.