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Social Activities: First Friday Lunch - May 1st, 2015 - Brittney Edmonds, PhD Candidate in the English Department

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First Friday Lunch - May 1st, 2015 - Brittney Edmonds, PhD Candidate in the English Department
Join us for First Fridays, a monthly recurring event for undergraduate and graduate Princeton alumni, graduate students, and parents.  On the first Friday of each month, area alumni and their guests will meet to enjoy a prix fixe luncheon at the Nassau Club in downtown Princeton.  As a special bonus for PA3, a Princeton University PhD candidate will present his/her work to the group in this informal setting.  Topics vary monthly and are always interesting!  Have a look at our impressive roster of previous luncheons.

On Friday, May 1st, we will be joined by Brittney Edmonds, Doctoral Candidate in the Department of English.  Brittney is currently writing a dissertation entitled Consuming Blackness: The Afterlife of the Commodity, which examines contemporary African-American literature by attending to a long neglected legacy issuing out the institution of slavery in the United States.  Brittney argues that the commodity status of Afro-Americans under slavery not only subjected the enslaved to a dehumanizing status before the law and the socio-political category of the human, but also, codified a perverse relationship between African-Americans and the market.  Brittney will explore this relationship in a brief conversation about gentrification, the African-American male writer, and Mat Johnson's 2003 novel Hunting in Harlem. 

As always, there is sure to be a lively discussion!  Please join us.

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Specially priced at $25/person (or $30 if you choose not to pay PA3's annual dues), lunch includes three courses, a complementary beverage (wine, beer, soft drink) and coffee/tea. Pre-registration is preferred.

>> Looking forward to seeing you...in your orange and black! <<

Date: Friday, May 1st, 2015
Time: 12 noon - 2 pm
Location: Nassau Club, 6 Mercer St, Princeton, NJ
Nassau Club membership is not necessary to attend this event.
Dress is business casual.

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First Friday Lunch ( Friday, May 1, 2015 - 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM )

Brittney Edmonds, PhD Candidate in the Department of English, will discuss how market practices produced the black writer.

Location: Nassau Club, 6 Mercer St, Princeton
Cost: $25/person dues-paying members & guest; $30 others
Organized by: PA3

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