Hilary Berwick’s annotated playlist suggests that black musical practices enact temporal interventions within which currents of desire, identification and memory reshape the boundaries of what is representable. Indeed, Berwick’s discussion of haunting as a primary mode of hip hop representation demonstrates the potential contributions that engagements with sonic culture could make to explorations of the erotic and psychoanalytic dimensions of black historical memory and practices of remembrance, particularly as it relates to reckoning with trauma.
Articles by Hilary Berwick
\Hilary Berwick is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at UC Davis. Her work focuses on gender and masculinity, affect and histories of emotion, racialization and ethnicity, and theories of mourning. Her dissertation, “Producing Anarchist Subjects: Emotion, Race, and Gender in the Case of Sacco and Vanzetti, 1917–1927,” investigates the emergence of “anarchist” as a new racialized and gendered subject that arose along with bombing violence in the late 1910s and 1920s. This project locates Sacco and Vanzetti within the longer history by which national, legislative, and medical discourses have constructed men of color as violent, both because they are marked as emotionally unstable and because they are understood to produce fear in an imagined American population.\