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This event is in the past.It took place on March 18, 2026 at UC Berkeley Student Union: Martin Luther King Jr. Building.

Berkeley Book Chat with Sarah Gold McBride 1
Literature Talk
Berkeley Book Chat with Sarah Gold McBride 2
Berkeley Book Chat with Sarah Gold McBride 3
Berkeley Book Chat with Sarah Gold McBride 4
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Berkeley Book Chat with Sarah Gold McBride

Southside

Sarah Gold McBride unpacks how 19th-century Americans turned hair into a science of identity. Her New Yorker-lauded book "Whiskerology" traces how length, texture, and style became loaded signifiers of race, gender, and belonging in a diversifying nation.

Intellectual discussion
Literary event
Free campus talk
American history

Tips

📚"Whiskerology" — New Yorker Best Book of the Year
🎓Q&A with History prof David Henkin
💡bring your lunch — noon start

UC Berkeley Student Union: Martin Luther King Jr. Building

2495 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Free

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