CRG Events

Black Subjectivity/Black Comic Interventions

04.10.2009| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Becoming Richard Pryor: Berkeley, 1971
Prof. Scott Saul, English Dept

Actor-comedian Richard Pryor may be one of the most present and least understood figures shadowing contemporary American culture. Upon his death in December 2005, the media paid tribute to his legacy with the sort of praise that would have seemed extravagant if it wasn’t so heartfelt and, from the perspective of Pryor’s life, so...