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There is nothing more consistently symbolic of goth and the gothic than the color black. Black is so ubiquitous a representation of the melancholy and the macabre that its presence seems inevitable and obvious. But black is a complicated color. It has two lives: a color and a culture, an adjective and an identity. There is black, and then there is Black. This talk examines the complicated and sometimes contradictory meanings behind the color of the night, from the aesthetics of mourning and horror to the mythology of “the dark continent” to Black is Beautiful. 

Tonight, join Leila Taylor, author of Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul, for a look at the meaning of black and Blackness and how the gothic occupies both of these spaces.

Leila Taylor is a writer and designer whose work examines the gothic in Black culture, horror, and the aesthetics of melancholy. She has essays published in the Journal of Horror Studies, Dispatches from the Institute of Incoherent Geography, and the upcoming The New Urban Gothic: Global Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene. She has given talks for the International Gothic Association in Mexico and the U.K. and The Creative Independent with Morbid Anatomy. She lives in Brooklyn where she is Creative Director for Brooklyn Public Library. Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul is her first book.