A discussion of Lara Langer Cohen’s Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Thursday, September 14, 2023, 6-8pm
Making Worlds Bookstore and Social Center
210 S. 45th St, Philadelphia
Advanced Registration Encouraged, please RSVP here
Lara Langer Cohen’s Going Underground offers a genealogy of “the underground” as a space of subversion, tracing its formulation in Black radical manifestos, anarchist periodicals, sensationalist exposés of the urban underworld, manuals for sex magic, and the initiation rites of secret societies. The author will discuss the book with Daphne Brooks and S.S. Sandhu.
Lara Langer Cohen is the author of Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Duke, 2023) and Associate Professor of English at Swarthmore College.
Daphne Brooks is the author of Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound (Harvard, 2021). She is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Music at Yale University.
S.S. Sandhu is the author of Night Haunts: A Journey Through The London Night (Verso, 2010) and Associate Professor of English and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University.
Sponsored by the Aydelotte Foundation and Swarthmore Libraries
Poster available for download here.
