Hannah Marie Robbins | Strategies for teaching on race and Critical Race Theory in “white rooms”
Dr Hannah Robbins is an Assistant Professor in Popular Music at the University Of Nottingham. Her research focuses on the composer and lyricist Cole Porter, and on the representation of Black and queer creatives in the Broadway and Hollywood musical. She is currently completing her first book on the hit musical Kiss Me, Kate as well as publications on Lena Horne, High Society, and intersectionality in musical theatre histories.
Hannah’s contribution can be viewed by clicking the link below.
Teaching CRT in white rooms
Hannah, I was very impressed with your contribution to that inaugural panel discussion.
I appreciate the presentation here.
But what I want to know is just how successful you believe CRT to be, and how useful and appropriate for long-term discussion and change. I’m writing as a Black research student in philosophy, working across both the ‘Continental’ and ‘analytic’ modes (it’s pretty brutal) and looking to #dothework before postulating certain ideas. We need monumental pushback in UK HE which has domesticated the voices of BAME researchers for many years – but we also need heuristic strategies that are vastly more rigorous than much that comes from BAME scholars. Not all – but more than would be ideal. Would love to talk about this properly. Thanks again and all best!