Sunday Scholar Series
How to Get Away with the Truth: Sojourner Truth, Race, Religion and Gender in 19th century America
Dr. Erika Gault discusses how in reality TV shows like Love & Basketball to Shonda Rhimes’ hit How to Get Away With Murder, media representations of Black women are complex. Gault, poet, minister, and historian, explores how Black women use language and their own bodies to speak truthfully about race, religion, and gender in America.
History, religion, and poetry are all Erika Gault’s interests and link every facet of her work. Earning her Ph.D. from the University of New York at Buffalo, she is now an ordained minister and an Assistant Professor of History and Religion at Hilbert College, where she focuses on urban black life today and how we perceive it in spoken word and on TV — a natural field for Gault, who among her many accomplishments placed first in the 2012 Toronto International Poetry Slam.
