Erica Lorraine Williams, former FHI Mellon HBCU Fellow, on her new book, Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements. When Brazil's tourism department uses Black sexuality to promotes their nation as a paradise of escape, how are Afro-Brazilian women viewed and treated in light of this...

Ato Quayson delivers a public lecture as part of his short-term residency at the FHI, dealing with diasporic literature in greater context of post-colonialism. Ato Quayson is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto, where...

This talk investigates the use of fast fashion -- cheap chic pedaled by behemoths such as Zara and H&M -- by a group of undocumented immigrant women who wear the clothes to labor in New York City's nail salons. In the wake of Rana Plaza, how can we move forward with a critique of fast fashion...