A book reading and signing with LISA UDDIN Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture Studies at Whitman College.
Why do we feel bad at the zoo? Drawing from her new book, Prof. Lisa Uddin will discuss the history of bad feelings in and around modern zoos. This talk focuses on reform efforts in U.S. zoos in the 1960s and 70s, from “naked cages” to more “naturalistic” enclosures. Foregrounding the racial and spatial dynamics that underwrote modernization, Uddin shows how efforts to make the zoo more natural and protect nonhuman species reflected white middle-class anxieties about U.S. urbanism and desires to suburbanize.
The story that emerges reveals the complex entanglements of rare and endangered animals with the experiences of postwar American whiteness.
Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 7:00 pm
Reid Campus Center, GO2
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