{"id":2034,"date":"2025-11-18T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:00:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:00:29","slug":"colloquium-black-women-biographies-and-the-challenge-of-two-faced-archives-by-k-t-ewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/colloquium-black-women-biographies-and-the-challenge-of-two-faced-archives-by-k-t-ewing\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium: \u201cBlack Women, Biographies, and the Challenge of Two-Faced Archives\u201d by K.T. Ewing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Join the UCR Department of Ethnic Studies for our colloquium speaker series:<\/h3>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cBlack Women, Biographies, and the Challenge of Two-Faced Archives\u201d<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">By K.T. Ewing<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Monday, November 24, 2025<br \/>\n1:00-2:00 p.m.<br \/>\nCHASS INTS 1111<\/h3>\n<p>The craft of Black women\u2019s biography enables a more accurate recounting of their lives as a corrective to how those stories have been erased, underappreciated, or misunderstood. This process of reclamation locates the presence of Black women in their fullness, both within and beyond traditional archives. It challenges the narrative that the relative silence surrounding Black women\u2019s interior lives is synonymous with an absence of complexity. When these women intentionally preserve their own stories, the result is even richer. Using blues performer Alberta Hunter as an example, this talk explores how some Black women use a process of two-faced archiving to preserve and sometimes share their life stories on their own terms.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2035\" src=\"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/kt_ewing-248x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/kt_ewing-248x300.png 248w, https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/kt_ewing-124x150.png 124w, https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/kt_ewing.png 514w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong>K.T. Ewing<\/strong> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Race Studies at The University of Alabama, is a proud third generation HBCU graduate whose interests include Black history, women and gender studies, and the influence of blues culture in American society. She has writings published in <em>The Black Scholar<\/em>, <em>Black Perspectives<\/em>, <em>Transformations in Africana Studies<\/em>, and <em>Black Female Sexualities<\/em>. Her current book project, <em>Remember My Name: Alberta Hunter and the Two-Faced Archive<\/em>, examines the life of Alberta Hunter, a twentieth-century blues and cabaret singer from Memphis, Tennessee.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the UCR Department of Ethnic Studies for our colloquium speaker series: \u201cBlack Women, Biographies, and the Challenge of Two-Faced Archives\u201d By K.T. 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