Africana Black Diaspora Studies: Coffee Chat with Corrine Collins
Africana Black Diaspora Studies: Coffee Chat with Corrine Collins
Dr. Corrine Collins is an assistant professor of English at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on contemporary African diaspora literature and culture. Her research focuses on representations of interracial intimacy in twentieth and twenty-first century African diaspora literature and popular culture.
In her coffee chat, Collins will discuss with graduate students her work and her lecture on Thursday, 2025.09.25.
In that talk, Collins examines the food and lifestyle content of Nara Aziza Smith and Meghan Markle. Nara Smith rose to fame with ASMR Instagram and TikTok videos of her making food from scratch in haute couture gowns, and Meghan Markle recently returned to the food lifestyle production with her 2025 Netflix show With Love, Meghan. Collins analyzes the ways Smith's and Markle's content intersects with their black multiracial identities to argue that both women emphasize the domestic as a space of interracial healing, peaceful love, and abundance. In doing so, Collins engages with the legacy of "mulatta," and argues that the black multiracial woman has become a figure of racial and domestic (re)productivity in the twenty-first century.
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Dr. Corrine Collins is an assistant professor of English at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on contemporary African diaspora literature and culture. Her research focuses on representations of interracial intimacy in twentieth and twenty-first century African diaspora literature and popular culture.
In her coffee chat, Collins will discuss with graduate students her work and her lecture on Thursday, 2025.09.25.
In that talk, Collins examines the food and lifestyle content of Nara Aziza Smith and Meghan Markle. Nara Smith rose to fame with ASMR Instagram and TikTok videos of her making food from scratch in haute couture gowns, and Meghan Markle recently returned to the food lifestyle production with her 2025 Netflix show With Love, Meghan. Collins analyzes the ways Smith's and Markle's content intersects with their black multiracial identities to argue that both women emphasize the domestic as a space of interracial healing, peaceful love, and abundance. In doing so, Collins engages with the legacy of "mulatta," and argues that the black multiracial woman has become a figure of racial and domestic (re)productivity in the twenty-first century.
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