You are cordially invited to attend the Department of History’s S.T. Lee Lecture for AY18-19 titled, “Consumer Capitalism, Racialization, and ‘Black is Beautiful’” with Professor Lynn M. Thomas. Lynn M. Thomas is a Professor of History at the University of Washington, Seattle where she is also an adjunct faculty member in Anthropology and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies. Thomas is the author of Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya (2003), co-editor of The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization (2008) and Love in Africa (2009), and a former co-editor of the Journal of African History (2010-15). Her book Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners is forthcoming with Duke University Press. 

A reception with light refreshments will follow the lecture and ensuing Q&A, and we very much hope that you will join us!

For the flyer, click S.T.LeeLecture – LynnThomas3.13.19. 
For the topic sheet, click LynnThomasSTLeeTopicsheet3.13.19.