#SayHerName: Toward a Gender Inclusive Movement for Racial Justice

Brittney Cooper of Rutgers University argued against respectability politics and for a gender-inclusive racial justice movement, building her talk around Rachel Jeantel's testimony in the Trayvon Martin case, the deaths of Sandra Bland, Tanisha Anderson and Natasha McKenna, the #SayHerName campaign, and the intellectual stakes of intersectionality. She also recounted her own confrontation with a police officer as a recent college graduate. Spring 2016 series "Breaking Down Racism: Fighting for Racial Justice in the U.S." A long audience Q&A followed, touching on the 2016 presidential race, campus protest after Mizzou, and teaching race across disciplines.