Internationally recognized scholar-activist Jackson Katz will explore the role that white male identity politics are playing in the race to elect potentially the first woman president of the United States.
As the kick-off event of the American Studies CAMPAIGN 2016 fall speaker series, Katz’s richly-illustrated talk will set the stage for a series of talks and panels on this historic presidential race. The series will explore the roles of gender, race, ethnicity, xenophobia and voter suppression in this exceptional election year.
This event is free, and open to the public.
Jackson Katz, Ph.D., is an educator, author, filmmaker and cultural theorist who is internationally renowned for his pioneering scholarship and activism on issues of gender and violence. He is co-founder of the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program. He is the creator of the award-winning educational documentaries Tough Guise and Tough Guise 2. He is the author of The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help and Man Enough? Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and the Politics of Presidential Masculinity. He lectures widely in the U.S. and around the world on violence, media and masculinities.